Minireview: Gender-specific sleep regulation

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 75-79

  Kimura, Mayumi ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Estrogren; Gender differences; Growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH); Ovulation cycles; Pregnancy; Rats

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; SEX HORMONE;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRUG EFFECT; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

EID: 27844537506     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2005.00168.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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