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Light and biological rhythms in man /
In this volume, current knowledge on light as a regulator of biological rhythms is considered from both basic science and clinical perspectives. Chapters by leading experts cover the whole range of biological rhythms, from infradian and circadian to the longer ultradian rhythms, in a wide variety of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
1993.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Wenner-Gren international series ;
v. 63. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Biological rhythms: from gene expression to behavior
- Light and light perception
- Light: definitions and measurements
- Mechanisms in the eye that mediate the biological and therapeutic effects of light in humans
- Mammalian melatonin rhythm generating system
- Circadian photoreception in mammals and other vertebrates
- Maternal entrainment of a fetal biological clock
- Anatomy and physiology of light regulated endogenous oscillators
- Daily melatonin infusion entrains free-running activity in syrian and Siberian hamsters
- Distribution of the melatonin receptor in the central nervous system of vertebrates. Kinetic parameters and signal transduction pathways
- Neurotransmitters and peptides in the pineal gland
- Mammalian pineal gland as an end organ of the visual system.
- (cont) Light entrainment of rat and human circadian melatonin rhythms
- Use of melatonin as a marker for circadian phase and as a chronobiotic in blind and sighted humans
- Light influence on circadian rhythms
- Overview: unmasking temperature data obtained in field conditions
- Some effects of light and melatonin on human rhythms
- Understanding the use of light to control the circadian pacemaker in humans
- Sleep/wake regulation
- Hormone rhythms and sleep
- Biological rhythms and sleep disorders in man: the delayed sleep phase syndrome
- Circadian, menstrual and seasonal light regulated rhythms
- Influence of age, sex, height, weight, urine volume and latitude on melatonin concentrations in urine from normal subjects: a multinational study.
- (cont) Individual variations of rhythms in morning and evening types with special emphasis on seasonal differences
- Light regulation of the menstrual cycle
- Circadian variation in some endocrine and neuroendocrine functions in humans
- Peptic ulcer and melatonin
- Relationship between the pineal gland and cancer: seasonal aspects
- Light treatment of disorders with rhythmic disturbances
- Light treatment of depressive states; Swedish experience at latitude 59� north
- Comparison of two different placebo-controlled SAD light treatment studies
- Effect of light on unmasked circadian rhythms in winter depression
- Light treatment versus drug treatment in winter depression
- Light therapy of premenstrual depression
- Diagnostic implications of seasonality and seasonal affective disorders for the outcome of phototherapy
- Overview: light treatment and future directions of research
- Melatonin: historical aspects.