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ReviewGastroenterology2025

Circadian Rhythms in Gastroenterology: The Biological Clock's Impact on Gut Health.

Faraz Bishehsari, Zoë Post, Garth R Swanson, Ali Keshavarzian

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Review in Gastroenterology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Faraz BishehsariGastroenterology Research Center (GRC), Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas; MD Anderson Cancer Center-UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas; Rush Center for Integrated Microbiome and Chronobiology Research (CIMCR), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; Rush University, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Chicago, Illinois. Electronic address: Faraz.bishehsari@uth.tmc.edu.
Zoë PostRush University Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Chicago, Illinois.
Garth R SwansonRush Center for Integrated Microbiome and Chronobiology Research (CIMCR), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; Rush University, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Chicago, Illinois; Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Charleston, South Carolina.
Ali KeshavarzianRush Center for Integrated Microbiome and Chronobiology Research (CIMCR), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; Rush University, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Chicago, Illinois; Rush University Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Chicago, Illinois; Rush University, Department of Physiology, Chicago, Illinois.

Funding

Development of a precision medicine platform for circadian based therapeutics in pancreatic cancerR01CA279487 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI BISHEHSARI, FARAZ · 2022 to 2025
$3.6M
Impact of Circadian-Microbiome Interaction on the Gut-Pancreas Axis in AgingU01AG086145 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI Faraz Bishehsari · 2024 to 2026
$2.0M
Personalized Organoid-Chip Model For Drug Testing in Pancreatic CancerR21CA277110 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI BISHEHSARI, FARAZ · 2023 to 2024
$410k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA279487NCI NIH HHS R21 CA277110NIA NIH HHS U01 AG086145
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, including functional, inflammatory, and neoplastic conditions, are increasing globally, partly due to modern lifestyles. The circadian rhythm, regulated by the central clock in the hypothalamus and synchronized with peripheral clocks in the GI organs, orchestrates GI functions in response to environmental cycles. This clock is influenced by cues such as light, sleep, and eating times. The circadian machinery prepares the host to cope with environmental conditions to adjust cellular and organ function accordingly. Modern behaviors-like night-time light exposure, travel across time zones, shift work, mistimed eating, and social jet lag-disrupt the circadian clock, affecting GI processes such as digestion, absorption, motility, intestinal barrier function, immune function, and the microbiome, promoting not only GI pathology, but also systemic inflammatory and metabolic disorders. This review summarizes the circadian rhythm's role in normal GI function, examines the consequences of circadian disruption in the GI tract, and discusses circadian-based therapeutic interventions. These interventions aim to realign the circadian clock with external cues or optimize medication timing according to biological rhythms. Understanding the role of the circadian clock in GI conditions can provide preventive and therapeutic opportunities to reduce the burden of GI diseases.

Indexed as

Biological ClocksCircadian ClocksCircadian RhythmGastrointestinal DiseasesGastrointestinal TractAnimalsGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansChronotherapyCircadian RhythmClockGI DiseaseGut

Identifiers

PMID40588189
PMCPMC13552429

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