The photoperiod transducer melatonin and
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Georges J.M. Maestroni
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The pineal neurohormone melatonin functionally synchronizes the organism with the photoperiod. It is now well recognized that melatonin also plays an important immunoregulatory role. T-helper cells bear G-protein coupled melatonin cell-membrane receptors and, perhaps, melatonin nuclear receptors. Ac