Circadian disturbances after night-shift work onboard a naval ship

Military Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 101-105

  Goh, Victor Hng Hang ^a   Tong, Terry Yoke Yin ^a   Lim, Chin Leong ^b   Low, Edwin Cheng Tee ^c   Lee, Lionel Kim Hock ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Defence Medical Research Institute   (Singapore)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; MELATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NAVY; NIGHT WORK; NORMAL HUMAN; SALIVA LEVEL; SHIFT WORKER; SOMNOLENCE; STRESS;

EID: 0033999884     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/165.2.101     Document Type: Article

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