Entrainment of free-running circadian rhythms by melatonin in blind people

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 343, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 1070-1077

  Sack, Robert L ^a,b   Brandes, Richard W ^a   Kendall, Adam R ^a   Lewy, Alfred J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INSOMNIA; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOMNOLENCE;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DYSSOMNIAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 0034642063     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200010123431503     Document Type: Article

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