Chronobiotechnology and Chronobiological Engineering

Front Matter....Pages I-XXII
Perspectives of chronobiologic engineering....Pages 1-46
Modern drug administration devices for the chronobiologic optimization of conventional treatment modes....Pages 47-49
Implantable and programmable drug administration system for chronopharmacological applications....Pages 50-50
Pumps for providing insulin....Pages 51-52
Drug Delivery Technologies at 3M....Pages 53-60
The Mini-Osmotic pump as a Tool in Chronobiology....Pages 61-64
Implantable Systems for Local Chronic Administration of Drug Application in Neuropharmacology....Pages 65-80
Potential Usefulness of Intelligent Drug Administration Systems in Improving Antiarrhythmic Therapy....Pages 81-85
Endocrine disorders: need for new instrumentation....Pages 86-87
Chronobiologic Data Analysis Systems with Emphasis in Chronotherapeutic Marker Rhythmometry and Chronoepidemiologic Risk Assessment....Pages 88-119
Selection of Data Analysis Methods in Chronobiology....Pages 120-125
A B iodata A cquisition R ecording S ystem (BIDARS)....Pages 126-130
Computing in Medical Chronobiology; practical aspects of data collection, analysis and instrumentation....Pages 131-140
Human Thermometry in Health and Disease the Chronobiologist’s Perspective....Pages 141-188
The Measurement of Circadian Rhythms in Psychological Functions....Pages 189-201
The Design of Human Activity Monitors....Pages 202-215
The Synergetics of the Eye-Movements of REM Sleep....Pages 216-228
Recording, Automated Detection, and Quantification of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Patterns During Human REM Sleep....Pages 229-240
Instrumentation and Data Analysis Methods Needed for Blood Pressure Monitoring in Chronobiology....Pages 241-261
Noninvasive Chronobiological Blood Pressure Measurements’ Clinical Value and Perspective....Pages 262-269
Repetitive Blood Pressure Measurements: Clinical Issues, Techniques, and Data Analysis....Pages 270-277
Hyperbaric Impact Gauges Excess Blood Pressure During Pregnancy....Pages 278-281
The Non-Invasive Automatic 24-H Monitoring of Blood Pressure Gains Universatility by the Implementation of Data Analysis Systems Developed by Chronobiology....Pages 282-288
Chronobioengineering for human blood pressure....Pages 289-298
Blood pressure self-measurement in schools for chronobiologic discriminant analysis between two groups of children with and without family history of hypertension....Pages 299-303
Instrumentation for Human Blood Pressure Rhythm Assessment by Self-Measurement....Pages 304-309
Chronobiologic Electrocardiographic Monitoring Implications to Screening and Treatment in the Coronary Artery Disease....Pages 310-317
Overview: Chronobiologic ECG Monitoring....Pages 318-326
A Case for Clinical Concentration Upon the Ultradian Frequency Domain....Pages 327-330
Requirements for Chronobiotechnology and Chronobiologic Engineering in Laboratory Medicine....Pages 331-372
Chemiluminescence Immunoassay: A New Diagnostic Technology....Pages 373-379
The Application of Chronobiologic Techniques to Studies in the Digestive System....Pages 380-389
Gastric Continuous pH Monitoring: A New Apparatus in Chronobiological Research....Pages 390-392
Hardware and software needs for the eventually ambulatory clinical chronobiologic laboratory....Pages 393-396
Multiparameter Data Acquisition Systems for Studies of Circadian Rhythms....Pages 397-405
A Cage Designed to Improve Coherence of Data from Meal-Fed Groups of Laboratory Rodents....Pages 406-411
Long Term Recording of Animal Behaviour as a Tool in Circadian Rhythm Research....Pages 412-418
Measurement of Brain Indoleamine Release in Vivo: Application to Chronobiology....Pages 419-426
Automatic Monitoring of Oxygen Utilization in Insects....Pages 427-428
Controlled Release Devices....Pages 429-432
Electrophysiological Recordings from Ciliates....Pages 432-434
Back Matter....Pages 435-453