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Melatonin and cancer risk: does light at night compromise physiologic cancer protection by lowering serum melatonin levels?
The suprachiasmatic nuclei in the hypothalamus, one of the most important physiological determinants of alertness and performance, drive a circadian pacemaker in mammals, with an intrinsic period averaging 24 h. Light is the primary stimulus to the disruption and resetting of this pacemaker, which i...
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Nature Publishing Group
2004
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2409637/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14997186 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601626 |