title: Human growth hormone release: relation to slow-wave sleep and sleep-walking cycles.
abstract: Release of human growth hormone during sleep is significantly related to slow, synchronized stages of sleep and therefore would seem to be controlled by related neural mechanisms. When sleep-waking cycles are reversed by 12 hours, the release of growth hormone with sleep is reversed; thus release does not follow an inherent circadian rhythm independent of sleep.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004576:Electromyography; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000097:blood*; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010507:Periodicity; D012890:Sleep; D012894:Sleep Stages; D012895:Sleep, REM
chemical_list: D013006:Growth Hormone