Chronic shifts in the length and phase of the light cycle increase intermittent alcohol drinking in C57BL/6J mice
Introduction: Shift workers – e.g., health care professionals, truck drivers, and factory workers – are forced to maintain daily cycles at odds with their natural circadian rhythms and as a consequence need to frequently readjust these cycles. This shift work-induced circadian desynchrony (CD) is as...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-02-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00009/full |