Effects of trazodone on polysomnography, blood concentration and core body temperature in healthy volunteers

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-191

  Yamadera, Hiroshi ^a   Suzuki, Hideaki ^a   Nakamura, Shuichi ^a   Endo, Shunkichi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood concentration; Body core temperature; Healthy volunteer; Slow wave sleep; Trazodone

Indexed keywords

TRAZODONE;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SLOW WAVE SLEEP;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SLEEP STAGES; TRAZODONE;

EID: 0033034840     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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