Melatonin disturbances in anorexia nervo
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Kennedy, Sidney H.
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Article
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1994
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Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
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English
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The pineal gland releases melatonin into the blood stream in response to sympathetic noradrenergic stimulation of pinealocytes. This process is inhibited by light via the retino-hypothalamic-pineal pathway. Hence melatonin is predominantly released in darkness. Because serotonin is a precursor of me