The Circadian Clock

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Albrecht, Urs (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Protein Reviews ; 12
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Human physiology.; Medical biochemistry.; Biochemistry.; Proteins.; Cell biology.; Life Sciences.; Protein Science.; Biochemistry, general.; Animal Biochemistry.; Medical Biochemistry.; Cell Biology.; Human Physiology.

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
• Nonimage Forming Photoreceptors
• Circadian Clocks and Metabolism
• Circadian Clock, Cell Cycle and Cancer
• Comparative Clocks
• Circadian Neural 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.