Aging of non-visual spectral sensitivity to light in humans: Compensatory mechanisms?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Najjar, Raymond P ^a,b,h   Chiquet, Christophe ^a,c,d   Teikari, Petteri ^a,b,i   Cornut, Pierre Loïc ^a,e   Claustrat, Bruno ^a,f   Denis, Philippe ^a,g   Cooper, Howard M ^a,b   Gronfier, Claude ^a,b  

^a STEM CELL AND BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^f Center of biology and pathology   (France)

^g CROIX ROUSSE HOSPITAL   (France)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LENS; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGING; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; MALE; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899832822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085837     Document Type: Article

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