Yoku-kan-san-ka-chimpi-hange (YKCH) is a drug used for insomnia in Japanese traditional herbal medicine. The present study evaluated the effects of YKCH on sleep by all-night polysomnography using… (More)
It is known that benzodiazepines have a hypotensive effect, but the mechanism has not been well elucidated yet. To clarify whether this effect is due to central or peripheral mechanism, we… (More)
Donepezil (Aricept) is a therapeutic drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, there have been only two reports describing the effects of donepezil on sleep as assessed by… (More)
BACKGROUND
The aim of this study was to identify the acute effects of ethanol on the relationship between sleep and heart rate variability (HRV) during sleep.
METHODS
Ten healthy male university… (More)
Diazepam binding inhibitor (DBI), a putative endogenous polypeptide ligand for benzodiazepine (BZD) receptors, has been shown to act as an inverse BZD receptor agonist in the brain. We previously… (More)
We investigated the influence of melatonin on the human autonomic functions by measuring muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA). Five healthy male volunteers took 3 mg of melatonin, and their… (More)
Amphetamine and its related compounds have long been used in the drug therapy of narcolepsy. However, although they have proved effective in treating sleep attacks they have not been so effective in… (More)
This study presents an experimental method of porosity evaluation and a predictive thermal-hydraulic analysis with packed spheres in a nuclear reactor core. The porosity experiments were carried out… (More)
This was the first dose-finding study of trazodone that was designed to be free of the concomitant use of hypnotics, in which the drug was administered in a single dose for sleep disorders combined… (More)