Melatonin improves abdominal pain in irritable bowel syndrome patients who have sleep disturbances: A randomised, double blind, placebo controlled study

Gut

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1402-1407

  Song, G H ^b   Leng, P H ^b   Gwee, K A ^b   Moochhala, S M ^c   Ho, K Y ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; PLACEBO;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM; SLEEP DISORDER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; DEFECATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRESSURE; RECTUM; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 25444517619     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2004.062034     Document Type: Article

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