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SUBMITTER: Sridhar GR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5107711 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sridhar Gumpeny Ramachandra GR Sanjana Narasimhadevara Santhi Nirmala NS
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]