Nutrition in the spotlight: Metabolic effects of environmental light

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 451-463

  Versteeg, Ruth I ^a   Stenvers, Dirk J ^a   Kalsbeek, Andries ^a,b   Bisschop, Peter H ^a   Serlie, Mireille J ^a   La Fleur, Susanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificial light; Circadian; Glucose metabolism; Obesity

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; WEIGHT CONTROL; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIGHT; OBESITY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84981275730     PISSN: 00296651     EISSN: 14752719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0029665116000707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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