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Maciel, Fabio Everton; Geihs, Marcio Alberto; Vargas, Marcelo Alves; Cruz, Bruno Pinto; Ramos, Bianca Padovani; Vakkuri, Olli; Meyer-Rochow, Victor-Benno; Meyer, Luiz Eduardo Maia; Allodi, Silvana
(2008)
Melatonin is a biogenic amine, known from almost all phyla of living organisms. In vertebrates melatonin is produced rhythmically in the pinealocytes of the pineal gland, relaying information of the environmental light/dark ...
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Maciel, Fabio Everton; Ramos, Bianca Padovani; Geihs, Marcio Alberto; Vargas, Marcelo Alves; Cruz, Bruno Pinto; Meyer-Rochow, Victor-Benno; Vakkuri, Olli; Allodi, Silvana; Monserrat, José María; Nery, Luiz Eduardo Maia
(2010)
Numerous studies have shown that melatonin exerts some influence on the antioxidant defense system (ADS) in vertebrates, but
for crustaceans no such effect has been demonstrated till now. However,earlier reports did show ...
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Maciel, Fabio Everton; Geihs, Marcio Alberto; Vargas, Marcelo Alves; Ramos, Bianca Padovani; Cruz, Bruno Pinto; Machado, Maria Souza; Filadelfi, Ana Maria Caliman; Louzada, Fernando Mazzilli; Nery, Luiz Eduardo Maia
(2009)
N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine or melatonin is a multifunctional molecule. The main physiological function, at least in vertebrates, is to transduce to the animal the photoperiodic information and regulate rhythmic parameters. ...
