Abstract
To establish a relationship between the glymphatic system of brain and
circadian rhythm, we analyzed the effect of anomalies in water
thermodynamics on dependence of dynamic, electrical, and optical
characteristics of physiological fluids on temperature. The dynamics of
hydrogen bonds in bulk and hydrated water affected the activation
energies of ion currents of voltage-dependent channels that regulate
signaling and trophic bonds in neuropil of the cortical parenchyma. The
physics of minimizing of isobaric heat capacity of water made it
possible to explain stabilization and functional optimization of
thermodynamics of eyeball fluids at 34.5 °C and human brain during sleep
at 36.5 °C. At these temperatures, thermoreceptors of cornea and cells
of ganglionic layer of the retina, through connections with
suprachiasmatic nucleus and pineal gland, switch circadian rhythm from
daytime to nighttime. The phylogenesis of circadian rhythm was reflected
in dependence of duration of nighttime sleep of mammals on diameter of
eyeball, mass of pineal gland, and density of neurons in parenchyma of
cortex. The activity of all nerves of eyeball led to division of night
sleep into slow and fast phases. In the first phase, there are
relaxation processes of synaptic plasticity and in the second - increase
water exchange in parenchyma and flush out toxins into the venous
system. Electrophysics of clearance and conductivity of ionic and water
channels of membranes of blood vessels and astrocytes modulate
oscillations of polarization potentials of water dipole domains in
parietal plasma layers of arterioles and capillaries.