Suppression of melatonin by 2000-lux light in humans with closed eyelids
- 1 September 1999
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Biological Psychiatry
- Vol. 46 (6) , 827-831
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0006-3223(98)00357-6
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