Interferon-α acutely impairs sleep in healthy humans

Cytokine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 518-521

  Späth Schwalbe, Ernst ^a   Lange, Tanja ^b   Perras, Boris ^b   Lorenz Fehm, Horst ^b   Born, Jan ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Hormones; Interleukin 6; Sleep stages

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT ALPHA INTERFERON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLOW WAVE SLEEP;

EID: 0343090404     PISSN: 10434666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cyto.1999.0587     Document Type: Article

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