Systemic growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) impairs sleep in healthy young women

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 32, Issue 8-10, 2007, Pages 1021-1027

  Mathias, Stefan ^a   Held, Katja ^a   Ising, Marcus ^a   Weikel, Jutta C ^a   Yassouridis, Alexander ^a   Steiger, Axel ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACTH; Cortisol; Gender differences; GHRH; Growth hormone; Sleep

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP STAGE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HEALTH; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PLACEBOS; SLEEP;

EID: 36049023513     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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