The Circadian Clock

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Albrecht, Urs. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Protein Reviews ; 12
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Human physiology.; Biochemistry.; Cytology.; Neurobiology.; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.; Animal Biochemistry.; Medical Biochemistry.; Cell Biology.; Human Physiology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1262-6

This comprehensive book, written by experts in the field, provides historical and current information about the circadian clock, molecular properties of clock components and their roles in health and disease. The Circadian Clock includes advances in several aspects of clock research with chapters ra...

Table of Contents:

• A History of Chronobiological Concepts
• Transcriptional Regulation of circadian clocks
• Posttranslational Regulation of Circadian Clocks
• Non-Image Forming Photoreceptors
• Circadian Clocks and Metabolism
• Circadian Clock, Cell Cycle and Cancer
• Comparative Clocks
• Circadian Neuronal Networks
• The Circadian Clock and the Homeostatic Hourglass  Two Timepieces Controlling Sleep and Wakefulness
• Clocks, Brain Function, and Dysfunction
• Systems Biology and Modeling of Circadian Rhythms.