Meeting report: The role of environmental lighting and circadian disruption in cancer and other diseases

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1357-1362

  Stevens, Richard G ^a   Blask, David E ^b   Brainard, George C ^c   Hansen, Johnni ^d   Lockley, Steven W ^e   Provencio, Ignacio ^f   Rea, Mark S ^g   Reinlib, Leslie ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b BASSETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^g RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Circadian rhythms; Clock genes; Lighting; Melatonin; Phototransduction; Pineal gland

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; MELANOPSIN; MELATONIN; PER2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE MUTATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; ILLUMINATION; JET LAG; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LYMPHOMA; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSARCOMA; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGION; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH;

EID: 34748917619     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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