Should melatonin be used to lower blood pressure?

Hypertension Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 682-683

  Grossman, Ehud ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROXYMELATONIN O SULFATE; MELATONIN;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRUG FORMULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NOCTURNAL HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; SLEEP DISORDER;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MELATONIN;

EID: 84881464461     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2013.29     Document Type: Note

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