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Control of Diurnal Fluctuations in Responsiveness to External Factors

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The Physiological Clock

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The sensitivity to external factors can be influenced by the physiological clock; i. e., the organism responds differently to stimuli of equal intensity depending upon the phase of the endogenous rhythm. Quantitative or even qualitative differences may occur.

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Bünning, E. (1964). Control of Diurnal Fluctuations in Responsiveness to External Factors. In: The Physiological Clock. Heidelberg Science Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22511-0_13

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