Alpha-helical CRH exerts CRH agonistic effects on sleep-endocrine activity in humans

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 62-67

  Held, Katja ^a   Antonijevic, Irina ^a   Murck, Harald ^a   Künzel, Heike ^a   Steiger, Axel ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CRH 1 receptor antagonist; CRH overactivity

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23844549307     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086606     Document Type: Article

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