Melatonin and S-20098 increase REM sleep and wake-up propensity without modifying NREM sleep homeostasis

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 272, Issue 4 41-4, 1997, Pages

  Cajochen, Christian ^a   Kräuchi, Kurt ^a   Möri, David ^a   Graw, Peter ^a   Wirz Justice, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

circadian phase; human sleep; spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

AGOMELATINE; MELATONIN; MELATONIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SPECTROSCOPY; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0030922065     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.272.4.r1189     Document Type: Article

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