Melatonin Influences Human Balance

NeuroSignals

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 111-119

  Fraschini, F ^a   Cesarani, A ^b   Alpini, D ^c   Esposti, D ^a   Stankov, B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Equilibriometric evaluation; Human balance; Melatonin; Otoneurological examination

Indexed keywords

BRAIN RECEPTOR; MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; STABILOGRAPHY; TIME; VERTIGO; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELATONIN; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN; REFLEX; VESTIBULE;

EID: 0033000356     PISSN: 1424862X     EISSN: 14248638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000014578     Document Type: Article

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