Clinical update: melatonin and sleep disorders
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Melatonin and Circadian Sleep Disorders
When administered to humans the pineal honnone me\atonin can phase shift a number of circadian rhythms. This property has prompted the investigation of exogenous melatonin in sleep disorders known to have an underlying chronophysiological basis (i.e. circadian rhythm sleep disorders). Both in field and simulated studies of jet lag and shift work suitably timed melatonin improved sleep and, in s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.8-4-381