Interrelations between sleep and the somatotropic axis

Sleep

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 553-566

  Van Cauter, Eve ^a   Plat, Laurence ^b   Copinschi, Georges ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aging; GH; GHRH; REM sleep; Slow wave sleep; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOSTATIN;

AGING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NARCOLEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AGING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP, REM; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0032530784     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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