New Therapeutic Strategy for Amino Acid Medicine: Glycine Improves the Quality of Sleep

Glycine is a non-essential amino acid that has indispensable roles in both excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission via N-methyl-D-aspartate type glutamate receptors and glycine receptors, respectively. We recently reported that glycine ingestion before bedtime significantly ameliorated subjectiv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Makoto Bannai, Nobuhiro Kawai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Pharmacological Sciences
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1347861319305729