Melatonin as a hormone: new physiological and clinical insights

J Cipolla-Neto, FG Amaral - Endocrine reviews, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Melatonin is a ubiquitous molecule present in almost every live being from bacteria to
humans. In vertebrates, besides being produced in peripheral tissues and acting as an …

Melatonin potentials against viral infections including COVID-19: Current evidence and new findings

KB Juybari, MH Pourhanifeh, A Hosseinzadeh… - Virus research, 2020 - Elsevier
Viral infections are dangerous diseases for human health worldwide, which lead to
significant morbidity and mortality each year. Because of their importance and the lack of …

Extrapineal melatonin: sources, regulation, and potential functions

D Acuña-Castroviejo, G Escames, C Venegas… - Cellular and molecular …, 2014 - Springer
Endogenous melatonin is synthesized from tryptophan via 5-hydroxytryptamine. It is
considered an indoleamine from a biochemical point of view because the melatonin …

Membrane melatonin receptors activated cell signaling in physiology and disease

G Nikolaev, R Robeva, R Konakchieva - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The pineal hormone melatonin has attracted great scientific interest since its discovery in
1958. Despite the enormous number of basic and clinical studies the exact role of melatonin …

Phytomelatonin: assisting plants to survive and thrive

RJ Reiter, DX Tan, Z Zhou, MHC Cruz, L Fuentes-Broto… - Molecules, 2015 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes the advances that have been made in terms of the identified
functions of melatonin in plants. Melatonin is an endogenously-produced molecule in all …

Melatonin receptors: molecular pharmacology and signalling in the context of system bias

E Cecon, A Oishi, R Jockers - British journal of pharmacology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Melatonin, N‐acetyl‐5‐methoxytryptamine, an evolutionally old molecule, is produced by the
pineal gland in vertebrates, and it binds with high affinity to melatonin receptors, which are …

Pineal melatonin: cell biology of its synthesis and of its physiological interactions

RJ Reiter - Endocrine reviews, 1991 - academic.oup.com
I. Introduction U NTIL 35 yr ago, most scientists did not take research on the pineal gland
seriously. The decade beginning in 1956, however, provided several discoveries that laid …

[图书][B] Melatonin and the mammalian pineal gland

J Arendt - 1994 - books.google.com
Page 1 Melatonin and the Mammalian Pineal Gland Josephine Arendt CHAPMAN & HALL
Page 2 Page 3 54331LVSX00373 Qty: 1 Melatonin and the Mammalian Pineal Page 4 Page 5 …

Cellular mechanisms of melatonin action

J Vanecek - Physiological reviews, 1998 - journals.physiology.org
Vanecek, Jiri. Cellular Mechanisms of Melatonin Action. Physiol. Rev. 78: 687–721, 1998.—
The pineal hormone melatonin is involved in photic regulations of various kinds, including …

Kynuramines, metabolites of melatonin and other indoles: the resurrection of an almost forgotten class of biogenic amines

R Hardeland, DX Tan, RJ Reiter - Journal of pineal research, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Kynuramines represent their own class of biogenic amines. They are formed either by
decarboxylation of kynurenines or pyrrole ring cleavage of indoleamines. N2‐formylated …