No significant difference in cytokine levels in patients with restless legs syndrome versus controls - Preliminary data

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 98-99

  Siddiqui, Fouzia ^a,b   Strus, Jolanta ^a,b   Sun, YeMing J ^a,b   Walters, Arthur S ^a,b  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; CLONAZEPAM; CYTOKINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FERROUS SULFATE; GABAPENTIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEVODOPA; OXYCODONE; PRAMIPEXOLE; ROPINIROLE; TRAMADOL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP PATTERN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME;

EID: 33845992886     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2006.07.296     Document Type: Letter

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