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Biologic Rhythms in Clinical and Laboratory Medicine
Bok av Yvan Touitou
Everyone has heard of nature's "e;biological clocks"e;, the phenomenon of periodic activity in plants, animals and humans. But what does chronobiology have to do with modern medicine? This book presents in a concise but comprehensive fashion the basic principles of chronobiology and their application to clinical medicine. The chapters are written by specialists in the field; they summarize the physiology, pathophysiology and pathology of the human time structure and outline the application of chronobiologic principles and techniques for diagnosis and treatment.