Effects of short wavelength control in polychromatic light sources on nocturnal melatonin secretion

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 439, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 256-259

  Kozaki, Tomoaki ^a   Koga, Shota ^a   Toda, Naohiro ^b   Noguchi, Hiroki ^b   Yasukouchi, Akira ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human; Melatonin suppression; Polychromatic light; Short wavelength light

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MELATONIN; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 44649176304     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.05.035     Document Type: Article

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