E17 - Part 1: Daylight vs. electric light for health with Russell Foster - Show notes

Part 1:

Russell Foster's recently published book: "Lifetime" 


Papers/books that Russell refers to:

"Spectral Sensitivity Tuning in the Deep-Sea" (Douglas et al. 2003)
	https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-22628-6_17

J. N. Lythgoe's book: "The Ecology of Vision"

"Sensitivity and integration in a visual pathway for circadian entrainment in the hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)" (Nelson & Takahashi 1991)
	https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1991.sp018660

"Phase-dependent shift of free-running human circadian rhythms in response to a single bright pulse" (Honma et al. 1987)
	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01945525

"Phototransduction by Retinal Ganglion Cells That Set the Circadian Clock" (Berson et al. 2002)
	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1067262

Russell's group to demonstrate the existence of retinal ganglion cells in mice:
"Melanopsin retinal ganglion cells and the maintenance of circadian and pupillary responses to light in 			aged rodless/coneless (rd/rd cl) mice" (Semo et al. 2003)
	https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02616.x


Retinal ganglion cells in the macaque:
"Melanopsin-expressing ganglion cells in primate retina signal colour and irradiance and project to the LGN" (Dacey et al. 2005)
	https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03387

Skin of frogs, melanophores --> melanopsin
"Melanopsin: An opsin in melanophores, brain, and eye" (Provencio et al. 1998)
	https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9419377/

VA opsin only in fish, not in mammals
"A novel and ancient vertebrate opsin" (Soni & Foster 1998)
	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0014-5793(97)00287-1

Samer Hattar’s work: projections to the hypothalamus from melanopsin
"Central projections of melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells in the mouse" (Hattar et al. 2006)
	https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.20970	

"Circadian photoreception in the retinally degenerate mouse (rd/rd)" (Foster et al. 1991)
	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00198171

"Neural Reprogramming in Retinal Degeneration" (Marc et al. 2007)
	https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.07-0032

"Suprachiasmatic nucleus in the mouse: retinal innervation, intrinsic organization and efferent projections" (Abrahamson & Moore 2001)
	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-8993(01)02890-6

Martin Ralph's tau mutant hamster, restore rhythms to the period of the donor
"Transplanted suprachiasmatic nucleus determines circadian period" (Ralph et al. 1990)
	https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.2305266

Peripheral clocks concept shown by Uli Schibler's group in fibroblasts
"Resetting of Circadian Time in Peripheral Tissues by Glucocorticoid Signaling" (Balsalobre et al. 2000)
	https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.289.5488.2344

Josephine Arendt melatonin pioneer
"Melatonin as a chronobiotic" (Arendt & Skene 2005)
	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2004.05.002

Contradictory evidence for the use of melatonin to facilitate the onset of sleep
	Example meta-analysis article: "Effects of exogenous melatonin on sleep: a meta-analysis" (Brzezinski et al. 2005)
	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2004.06.004

Patients on beta-blockers produce less melatonin:
"Influence of beta-blockers on melatonin release" (Stoschitzky et al. 1999)
	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s002280050604



How to contact Russell Foster:

Email: russell.foster@eye.ox.ac.uk