Solar cycles and their relationship to human disease and adaptability

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 447-461

  Davis Jr , George E ^a   Lowell, Walter E ^a  

^a Psybernetics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; ENDODERM; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTRON; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUTAGENICITY; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR ENERGY; STRESS; SUMMER; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WINTER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; METABOLIC DISEASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 33745245695     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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