• DOI:10.2741/3634
Corpus ID: 36170900

The circadian rhythm of body temperature.

@article{Refinetti1992TheCR,
  title={The circadian rhythm of body temperature.},
  author={R. Refinetti and M. Menaker},
  journal={Physiology & behavior},
  year={1992},
  volume={51 3},
  pages={
          613-37
        }
}

R. Refinetti, M. Menaker

Published 1992

Medicine, Biology

Physiology & behavior

This paper reviews the literature on the circadian rhythm of body temperature (CRT). The review starts with a brief discussion of methodological procedures followed by the description of known patterns of oscillation in body temperature, including ultradian and infradian rhythms. Special sections are devoted to issues of species differences, development and aging, and the relationships between the CRT and the circadian rhythm of locomotor activity, between the CRT and the thermoregulatory… CONTINUE READING

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