Melatonin advances the circadian timing of EEG sleep and directly facilitates sleep without altering its duration in extended sleep opportunities in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 561, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 339-351

  Rajaratnam, Shantha M W ^a,c   Middleton, Benita ^a   Stone, Barbara M ^b   Arendt, Josephine ^a   Dijk, Derk Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP SPINDLE; SLEEP STAGE; SLEEP TIME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP INDUCTION; TOTAL SLEEP TIME; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DELTA RHYTHM; HUMANS; MALE; MELATONIN; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 9344242983     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.073742     Document Type: Article

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