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  1. Departmento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Paraguay 2155, 1121, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Daniel P. Cardinali

  2. Comprehensive Center for Sleep Medicine, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1176, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal

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Cardinali, D.P., Pandi-Perumal, S.R. (2006). Chronopharmacology and its implications to the pharmacology of sleep. In: Pandi-Perumal, S.R., Monti, J.M. (eds) Clinical Pharmacology of Sleep. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7440-3_13

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