Irregular or unnatural artificial light causes severe environmental stress on the survival and
health of organisms, which is rapidly becoming a widespread new type of environmental …

Ever-present in our environments, light entrains circadian rhythms over long timescales,
influencing daily activity patterns, health and performance. Increasing evidence indicates …

Circadian rhythms influence most of our life activities, notably getting up and going to sleep
every day. The new edition of this book delves into the mechanisms surrounding how these …

Most behavioral experiments within circadian research are based on the analysis of
locomotor activity. This paper introduces scientists to chronobiology by explaining the basic …

Dark-phase light contamination can significantly disrupt chronobiologic rhythms, thereby
potentially altering the endocrine physiology and metabolism of experimental animals and …

The ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) controls the stability of most cellular proteins. The
polymorphism of UPS-related genes is associated with major depression disorder, but less …

In this review, we discuss the remarkable potency and potential applications of a form of light
that is often overlooked in a circadian context: naturalistic levels of dim light at night (nLAN) …

Early studies on rodents showed that short-term exposure to high-intensity light (> 70 lx)
above 600 nm (red-appearing) influences circadian neuroendocrine and metabolic …

The locomotor activity rhythms of domestic mice, laboratory rats, Syrian hamsters, Siberian
hamsters, Mongolian gerbils, degus, and Nile grass rats were compared. Running-wheel …

In mammals, light entrains endogenous circadian pacemakers by inducing daily phase shifts
via a photoreceptor mechanism recently discovered in retinal ganglion cells. Light that is …