Immunogenetics and sleep disorders

Pharmacogenomics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 365-367

  Tafti, Mehdi ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; HLA DR2 ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; OREXIN B;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CATAPLEXY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENETICS; MONOAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NARCOLEPSY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PARASOMNIA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP WALKING; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UNPLEASANT DREAM;

HUMANS; IMMUNOGENETICS; SLEEP DISORDERS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037769119     PISSN: 14622416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/phgs.4.4.365.22750     Document Type: Editorial

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