Cortisol enhances non-REM sleep and growth hormone secretion in elderly subjects

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 423-429

  Bohlhalter, S ^a   Murck, H ^a   Holsboer, F ^a   Steiger, A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Growth hormone; Sleep; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; SOMATOSTATIN;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; THETA RHYTHM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0030846139     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(97)00036-5     Document Type: Article

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