The chronosense - What light tells man about biological time

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1074-1080

  Erren, Thomas C ^a   Reiter, Russel J ^b   Pinger, Andreas ^a   Piekarski, Claus ^a   Erren, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; EYE; FIBER; FOREBRAIN; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; LIGHT; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; REVIEW; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 7044229508     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.04.028     Document Type: Article

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