Melatonin stabilises sleep onset time in a blind man without entrainment of cortisol or temperature rhythms

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 193-198

  Folkard, S ^a   Arendt, J ^b   Aldhous, M ^b   Kennett, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c Marley ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindness; Circadian rhythm; Melatonin; Sleep

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP;

BLINDNESS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CASE REPORT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGE; SLEEP DISORDERS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025331377     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(90)90302-P     Document Type: Article

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