Haim, Abraham
Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast and Prostate Cancers
1. Introduction
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
Part I. Artificial Light and Human Temporal Organization
2. Artificial Light and its Physicochemical Properties
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
3. Light and Dark Cycles as a Basis of Temporal Organization
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
4. Biological Clock and its Entrainment by Photoperiod
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
5. Light at Night (LAN) Exposure and its Potential Effects on Daily Rhythms and Seasonal Disruptions
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
6. Melatonin: “Hormone of Darkness” and a “Jack of all Traits”
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
Part II. Light Pollution, its Known Health Effects and Impact on Energy Conservation
7. Introduction and Spread of Artificial Illumination: A Human History Retrospective
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
8. Biological Definition of Light Pollution
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
9. Light-at-Night (LAN) as a General Stressor
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
10. Effects of Light Pollution on Animal Daily Rhythms and Seasonality: Ecological Consequences
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
11. Light Pollution and Hormone-Dependent Cancers: A Summary of Accumulated Empirical Evidence
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
Part III. Light Pollution and its Potential Links to Breast and Prostate Cancers
12. Geographic Patterns of Breast and Prostate Cancers (BC&PC) Worldwide
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
13. Light Pollution and its Associations with BC&PC in Population-Level Studies
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
14. Selected Methodological Issues of LAN-BC&PC Research
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
15. Dark-Less World: What is Next? (Conclusions and Prospects for Future Research)
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Cancer Research, Environmental Health, Biomedicine general
- Tekijä(t)
- Haim, Abraham
- Portnov, Boris A.
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2013
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 2013
- Sivumäärä
- 8 sivua
- Kategoria
- Terveys, kauneus, muoti
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789400762206