A chronobiotic is an agent that can cause phase adjustment of the circadian rhythm (biological body clock). That is, it is a substance capable of therapeutically entraining or re-entraining long-term desynchronized or short-term dissociated circadian rhythms in mammals, or prophylactically preventing their disruption following an environmental insult such as is caused by rapid travel across several time zones.
A chronobiotic is an agent that can cause phase adjustment of the circadian rhythm (biological body clock). That is, it is a substance capable of therapeutically entraining or re-entraining long-term desynchronized or short-term dissociated circadian rhythms in mammals, or prophylactically preventing their disruption following an environmental insult such as is caused by rapid travel across several time zones.
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