Progesterone-induced changes in sleep in male subjects

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 272, Issue 5 35-5, 1997, Pages

  Friess, Elisabeth ^a   Tagaya, Hirokuni ^a   Trachsel, Lorenz ^a   Holsboer, Florian ^a   Rupprecht, Rainer ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

all night spectral analysis; allopregnanolone; electroencephalogram power spectra; neurosteroids; aminobutyric acid(A) receptor complex

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; ELTANOLONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SLOW WAVE SLEEP;

EID: 0030979001     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1997.272.5.e885     Document Type: Article

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