Correlation between concentrations of melatonin in saliva and serum in patients with delayed sleep phase syndrome

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-183

  Nagtegaal, Elsbeth ^a   Peeters, Twan ^b   Swart, Wouter ^b   Smits, Marcel ^b   Kerkhof, Gerard ^b   Van Der Meer, Gert ^b  

^a GELDERSE VALLEI HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

DSPS; Melatonin; Radioimmunoassay; Saliva; Serum

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SLEEP DISORDER;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; MELATONIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVA; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 0031957499     PISSN: 01634356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007691-199804000-00008     Document Type: Article

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