Melatonin

R Hardeland, SR Pandi-Perumal… - The international journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
Melatonin, originally … Melatonin regulates the sleep/wake cycle, other circadian and seasonal
rhythms, and acts as an immunostimulator and cytoprotective agent. Circulating melatonin

The immunoneuroendocrine role of melatonin

GJM Maestroni - Journal of pineal research, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
… experimental methods which inhibit melatonin synthesis and secretion induce a state of
immunodepression which is counteracted by melatonin. In general, melatonin seems to have an …

Melatonin as a chronobiotic

J Arendt, DJ Skene - Sleep medicine reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
melatonin dose mean that the current PRCs for melatonin are not ideal. A single pulse PRC
for melatonin … of phase shift and optimum time of melatonin administration. The study of free-…

Melatonin

RC ZIMMERMANN, JM OLCESE - Treatment of the Postmenopausal …, 2007 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Molecular biology has dispersed some of the myths surrounding melatonin.
Melatonin production sites can be clearly identified by detecting message and protein …

Melatonin in humans

A Brzezinski - New England journal of medicine, 1997 - Mass Medical Soc
Three centuries ago, the French philosopher René Descartes described the pineal gland as
“the seat of the soul,” but it was not until the late 1950s that melatonin, the principal …

The basic physiology and pathophysiology of melatonin

B Claustrat, J Brun, G Chazot - Sleep medicine reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
… the role of melatonin in human physiology and disease has emerged, but many functions
and effects of melatonin remain unresolved. This review will focus on data about melatonin in …

[HTML][HTML] Melatonin: exceeding expectations

RJ Reiter, DX Tan, A Galano - Physiology, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
… however, has revealed that melatonin is functionally much more … Also, the conflating of
melatonin exclusively with the pineal … melatonin's multiple actions and the evidence that melatonin

Basic aspects of melatonin action

DP Cardinali, P Pévet - Sleep medicine reviews, 1998 - Elsevier
Melatonin is synthesized and secreted during the dark period of the light-dark cycle. Thus,
melatonin … Rhythmic nocturnal melatonin secretion is directly generated by the circadian clock, …

Cellular mechanisms of melatonin action

J Vanecek - Physiological reviews, 1998 - journals.physiology.org
… The pineal hormone melatonin is involved in photic regulations … The melatonin effects are
mediated by the specific high-… Two different G proteins coupled to the melatonin receptors have …

Melatonin

P Pévet - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
… The circadian rhythm of melatonin production and release, … Melatonin acts through high-affinity
receptors located … applications, exogenous melatonin or a melatonin agonist and …