Hypnotic activity of melatonin

Sleep

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 663-669

  Stone, B M ^a   Turner, C ^a   Mills, S L ^a   Nicholson, A N ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Melatonin; Sleep; Temperature

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; TEMAZEPAM;

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPNOSIS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0034255391     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/23.5.1i     Document Type: Article

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