Posts Tagged ‘melatonin’
Melatonin May Be Served As Potential Anti-fibrotic Drug/Prevent Cirrhosis
Melatonin may prevent Fibrosis/Cirrhosis I just wanted to post this as I suppose I missed the significance of melatonin before and (better late than never) now realize how important it is. To recap, I started taking melatonin to help with sleep patterns. Melatonin is produced by the liver and is the chemical which induces sleep.…
Read MoreSleep Disturbance in Cirrhosis
Sleep Disturbance in Cirrhosis The present study shows that patients with cirrhosis without evidence of hepatic encephalopathy and who were evaluated while performing their daily routines have abnormalities in the quality of sleep. Nearly one half of patients attending a Liver Clinic complained of unsatisfactory sleep, a frequency slightly greater than that previously reported with…
Read MoreSleep disorders linked to Melatonin Part 2
Sleep disorders linked to Melatonin Part 2 Pituitary hormone circadian rhythm alterations in cirrhosis patients with subclinical hepatic encephalopathy AIM: To analyze pituitary hormone and melatonin circadian rhythms, and to correlate hormonal alterations with clinical performance, hepatic disease severity and diagnostic tests used for the detection of hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhosis. METHODS: Twenty-six patients with…
Read MoreSleep disorders linked to Melatonin Part 1
Sleep disorders linked to Melatonin Part 1 Doron Garfinkel, MD, and Nava Zisapel, PhD 15 July 1996 | Volume 125 Issue 2 | Page 154 TO THE EDITOR: We read with interest the article by Steindl and colleagues 1. The authors thoroughly assessed 24-hour plasma melatonin levels and showed that significantly higher levels persisted throughout…
Read MoreThe Promise of a Good Nights Sleep?
Good Nights Sleep? In the course of her long life, Katherine Closson traveled, taught school, rebuilt aircraft engines and helped start a stock brokerage firm, but until two years ago, Closson, then 98, had never participated in a scientific study. That’s when researchers from the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) came to…
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