New chemical may lead to jet lag drug
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 08:20
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Jet lag, as every long-distance airline passenger knows, disrupts the body's normal circadian rhythms, or body clocks, and causes some very unpleasant effects such as disturbed sleep and fatigue. Now scientists in the US have isolated a chemical that could lead to the development of a drug to combat jet lag.