ANNUAL ENDOCRINE RHYTHMS IN MAN

Authors
TOUITOU Y BOGDAN A REINBERG A HAUS E
Citation
Y. Touitou et al., ANNUAL ENDOCRINE RHYTHMS IN MAN, Pathologie et biologie, 44(7), 1996, pp. 654-665
Citations number
84
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology
Journal title
Pathologie et biologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
03698114
Volume
44
Issue
7
Year of publication
1996
Pages
654 - 665
Database
ISI
SICI code
0369-8114(1996)44:7<654:AERIM>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Biological rhythms spread over a wide range of frequencies : circadian , ultradian and infradian. Circannual rhythms belong to this latter do main as their period average one year +/- 2 months. The seasonal rhyth ms in man of melatonin, prolactin, hormones of bone metabolism, ACTH a nd HCG are here reviewed and the questions raised by their characteriz ation - including methodological problems - their origin and their inc idence on health and diseases.