Effects of Melatonin and Oxygen Consumption and Choroidal Blood Flow

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2010-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Does melatonin affect basal metabolic rate, increase choroidal blood flow and reduce the vasospastic syndrome (VS)?

The main questions are:

Do women with VS exhibit...

• a different basal metabolic rate

• a reduced choroidal blood flow

• a reduced increase of oxygen consumption after intake of ice-water

• a different oxygen consumption after melatonin intake

• a different choroidal blood flow after melatonin intake

• a different oxygen consumption after melatonin intake and after intake of ice-water….?

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• Treatments: Melatonin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• vasospastic syndrome

• healthy

Exclusion Criteria:

• sick

• BMI >25 or <18

• migraine

• drug intake