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A survey of molecular details in the human pineal gland in the light of phylogeny, structure, function and chronobiological diseases

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Blue-enriched white light in the workplace improves self-reported alertness, performance and sleep quality

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PREDICTING HUMAN NOCTURNAL NONVISUAL RESPONSES TO MONOCHROMATIC AND POLYCHROMATIC LIGHT WITH A MELANOPSIN PHOTOSENSITIVITY FUNCTION

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Exposure to Room Light before Bedtime Suppresses Melatonin Onset and Shortens Melatonin Duration in Humans

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Rod photoreceptors drive circadian photoentrainment across a wide range of light intensities

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Physiology of Circadian Entrainment

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Spectral Responses of the Human Circadian System Depend on the Irradiance and Duration of Exposure to Light

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Daily and Seasonal Variation in the Spectral Composition of Light Exposure in Humans

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Light as a modulator of cognitive brain function

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Melanopsin as a Sleep Modulator: Circadian Gating of the Direct Effects of Light on Sleep and Altered Sleep Homeostasis in Opn4−/− Mice

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Human Responses to the Geophysical Daily, Annual and Lunar Cycles

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Sensitivity of the Human Circadian System to Short-Wavelength (420-nm) Light

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Melanopsin cells are the principal conduits for rod–cone input to non-image-forming vision

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Common variant in MTNR1B associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes and impaired early insulin secretion

(2008) Valeriya Lyssenko et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A variant near MTNR1B is associated with increased fasting plasma glucose levels and type 2 diabetes risk

(2008) Nabila Bouatia-Naji et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The acute light-induction of sleep is mediated by OPN4-based photoreception

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Rods-cones and melanopsin detect light and dark to modulate sleep independent of image formation

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