Melatonin: A novel treatment for IBS?

Gut

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1353-1354

  Elsenbruch, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANXIETY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MOOD DISORDER; PAIN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MELATONIN; MOOD DISORDERS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 25444440838     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2005.074377     Document Type: Review

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