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  • A closed literature-based discovery technique finds a mechanistic link between hypogonadism and diminished sleep quality in aging men
    Miller, Christopher M. ...
    STUDY OBJECTIVES: Sleep quality commonly diminishes with age, and, further, aging men often exhibit a wider range of sleep pathologies than women. We useda freely available, web-based discovery ... technique (Semantic MEDLINE) supported by semantic relationships to automatically extract information from MEDLINE titles and abstracts. DESIGN: We assumed that testosterone is associated with sleep (the A-C relationship in the paradigm) and looked for a mechanism to explain this association (B explanatory link) as a potential or partial mechanism underpinning the etiology of eroded sleep quality in aging men. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Review of full-text papers in critical nodes discovered in this manner resulted in the proposal that testosterone enhances sleep by inhibiting cortisol. Using this discovery method, we posit, and couldconfirm as a novel hypothesis, cortisol as part of a mechanistic link elucidating the observed correlation between decreased testosterone in aging men and diminished sleep quality. CONCLUSIONS: This approach is publically available and useful not only in this manner but also to generate from the literature alternative explanatory models for observed experimental results.
    Vir: Sleep. - ISSN 0161-8105 (Vol. 35, no. 2, 2012, str. 279-285)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2012
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 29619673
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vir: Sleep. - ISSN 0161-8105 (Vol. 35, no. 2, 2012, str. 279-285)
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