Alternating light-darkness-influenced human electrocardiographic magnetoreception in association with geomagnetic pulsations

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue SUPPL.1, 2000, Pages 63-75

  Otsuka, K ^a   Oinuma, S ^a   Cornelissen G ^b   Weydahl, A ^c   Ichimaru, Y ^d   Kobayashi, M ^d   Yano, S ^e   Holmeslet, B ^c   Hansen, T L ^c   Mitsutake, G ^f   Engebretson, M J ^g   Schwartzkopff, O ^b   Halberg, F ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d TOKYO KASEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^g AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomagnetic pulsation; Healthy human; Heart rate variability; Light dependent magnetoreception; Magnetoreceptor; Subarctic area

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644271952     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0753-3322(01)90007-1     Document Type: Article

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