Glycine ingestion improves subjective sleep quality in human volunteers, correlating with polysomnographic changes

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-131

  Yamadera, Wataru ^a   Inagawa, Kentaro ^b   Chiba, Shintaro ^c   Bannai, Makoto ^b   Takahashi, Michio ^b   Nakayama, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^c Ohta General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Glycine; Slow wave sleep latency; St Mary's Hospital Sleep Questionnaire; Stanford Sleepiness Scale

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; GLYCINE; PLACEBO;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NIGHT SLEEP; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SLEEP PATTERN; VOLUNTEER; WORKING MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY TEST; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; RECOGNITION; REM SLEEP; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME;

EID: 33947400110     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2007.00262.x     Document Type: Article

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