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Measurement of melatonin in body fluids: Standards, protocols and procedures

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The circadian rhythm of melatonin in saliva or plasma, or of the melatonin metabolite 6-sulfatoxymelatonin (a6MTs) in urine, is a defining feature of suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) function, the body’s endogenous oscillatory pacemaker. The primary objective of this review is t...

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Autores principales: de Almeida, Eduardo Alves, Di Mascio, Paolo, Harumi, Tatsuo, Warren Spence, D., Moscovitch, Adam, Hardeland, Rüdiger, Cardinali, Daniel P., Brown, Gregory M., Pandi-Perumal, S. R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3128751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21104186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00381-010-1278-8