Psychoneuroendocrinology
Volume 34, Issue 4 , Pages 540-545 , May 2009

Nocturnal levels of ghrelin and leptin and sleep in chronic insomnia

  • Sarosh J. Motivala

      Affiliations

    • University of California, Los Angeles – Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, 300 UCLA Medical Plaza, Room 3108, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7076, United States. Tel.: +1 310 206 7492; fax: +1 310 764 9247.
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  • A. Janet Tomiyama

      Affiliations

    • University of California, Los Angeles – Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, United States
    • ,
  • Michael Ziegler

      Affiliations

    • University of California, San Diego, United States
    • ,
  • Srikrishna Khandrika

      Affiliations

    • University of California, San Diego, United States
    • ,
  • Michael R. Irwin

      Affiliations

    • University of California, Los Angeles – Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, United States

Received 21 April 2008 ,Revised 13 October 2008 ,Accepted 21 October 2008.

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PII: S0306-4530(08)00290-4

doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.10.016

Psychoneuroendocrinology
Volume 34, Issue 4 , Pages 540-545 , May 2009

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