Circasemiannual chronomics: Half-yearly biospheric changes in their own right and as a circannual waveform

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages 45-54

  Cornélissen, Germaine ^a   Halberg, Franz ^a   Pöllmann, Ludwig ^a   Pöllmann, Brigitte ^a   Katinas, George S ^a   Minne, Hélène ^a   Breus, Tamara ^b   Sothern, Robert B ^a   Watanabe, Yoshihiko ^c   Tarquini, Roberto ^d   Perfetto, Federico ^d   Maggioni, Cristina ^e   Wilson, Douglas ^f   Gubin, Denis ^g   Otsuka, Kuniaki ^c   Bakken, Earl E ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

^g Tyumenskii Gosudarstvennyi M   (Russian Federation)

^h North Hawaii Community Hospital Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

Biospheric changes; Circasemiannual chronomics; Geomagnetics

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; CELL DENSITY; CHRONOBIOLOGY; COSMOS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOLAR ENERGY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0142245448     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2003.08.007     Document Type: Article

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