Clonidine effects on all-night human sleep: Opposite action of low- and medium-dose clonidine on human NREM-REM sleep proportion

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 138-144

  Miyazaki, Shinichi ^a,b   Uchida, Sunao ^b,c   Mukai, Junko ^a,b   Nishihara, Kyoko ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clonidine; Norepinephrine 2 receptor; Power spectral analysis; Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CLONIDINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCUS CERULEUS; LOW DRUG DOSE; NERVE CELL; NIGHT SLEEP; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; REM SLEEP; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLONIDINE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 1842685715     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2003.01207.x     Document Type: Article

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