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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sridhar GR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5107711 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
World journal of diabetes 20161101 19
Synchrony of biological processes with environmental cues developed over millennia to match growth, reproduction and senescence. This entails a complex interplay of genetic, metabolic, chemical, light, hormonal and hedonistic factors across life forms. Sleep is one of the most prominent rhythms where such a match is established. Over the past 100 years or so, it has been possible to disturb the synchrony between sleep-wake cycle and environmental cues. Development of electric lights, shift work ...[more]