Circadian excretory rhythms in night workers

Circadian excretory rhythms in night workers.

Conroy, R. T. W. L., Elliott, A. L., and Mills, J. N. (1970). Brit. J. industr. Med., 27, 356-363. Circadian excretory rhythms in night workers. Urine samples have been collected from day and night shift workers in a light engineering factory over periods of 24 or 48 hours during which blood was also collected for determination of plasma 11-hydroxycorticosteroids (11-OHCS). Different subjects d...

Day and Night: Circadian Rhythms in Worms

Most organisms seem to show ‘‘circadian rhythms’’—cycles of behaviour or gene expression that repeat roughly every 24 hours. Such cycles represent an internal circadian clock that can be ‘‘entrained,’’ or synchronized, to a regular light/dark or temperature cycle, and will then continue to cycle in the absence of the light or temperature stimulus. In the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, ho...

Circadian rhythms in plasma concentration of 11-hydroxycorticosteroids in men working on night shift and in permanent night workers.

Circadian-based new technologies for night workers.

Night work is becoming increasingly common. Unfortunately, humans are physiologically unsuited to inverted schedules, leading to negative consequences for shift workers, employers, and society. The circadian and homeostatic processes which govern sleepiness and alertness are improperly aligned for night workers. We review a number of laboratory studies designed to treat circadian maladaptation ...

Circadian rhythms.

1997 marks the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the master circadian pacemaker in mammals in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus. Remarkable progress has been made over the last 25 years in elucidating the physiological mechanisms involved in the entrainment, generation and expression of circadian rhythms at the cellular and systems levels. The recent discovery and cloning of the first...