Mg2+ reduces ACTH secretion and enhances spindle power without changing delta power during sleep in men - Possible therapeutic implications

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 247-252

  Murck, Harald ^a   Steiger, Axel ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACTH; Cortisol; GABA; Growth hormone; Melatonin; Mg2+; NMDA; Proclatin; Sleep; Sleep EEG; Sleep spindles

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GABAERGIC RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MELATONIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNESIUM METABOLISM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP; TREATMENT INDICATION; BLOOD; DELTA RHYTHM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP STAGE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; DELTA RHYTHM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MALE; MELATONIN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROLACTIN; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 0031595365     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050617     Document Type: Article

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