Melatonin after four decades
Subtitle: an assessment of its potential
By: edited by James Olcese.
Contributors: Olcese, James.; Hanseatic Endocrine Conference on Melatonin after Four Decades (1998 : Hamburg, Germany)
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 460.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Melatonin -- Physiological effect -- Congresses; Melatonin -- Therapeutic use -- Congresses; Melatonin -- physiology -- Congresses; Melatonin -- therapeutic use -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Proceedings of the Hanseatic Endocrine Conference on Melatonin after Four Decades: an assessment of its potential, held August 27-30, 1998, in Hamburg, Germany"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Melatonin-without the hype; title: Serotonin N-acetyltransferase: a personal historical persective; title: Evolution of melatonin-producing pinealocytes; title: Melatonin biosynthesis in chicken retina: regulation of tryptophan hydroxylase and arylakylamine N-acetyltransferance; title: Ultraviolet light suppreses melatonin biosynthesis in chick pineal gland; title: Effects of vasoactive intestinal eptide and histamine on melatonn and cAMP production in chick embryo pineal cells; title: Ceramide inhibits l-type calcium channel currents in rat pinealocytes; title: Expression of melatonin receptors and 2-[¹²⁵I]Iodomelatonin binding sites in the pituitary of a teleost fish; title: Melatonin release from the pineals of two sparids: sparus aurata and acanthopagrus bifasciatus; title: Photoendocrine signal transduction in pineal photoreceptorrs of the trout: role of cGMP and nitric oxide; title: Intrinsic glutaminergic system negatively regulates melatonin synthesis in mammalian pineal gland; title: Synaptic vesicle protein SV2B, but not SV2A, in predominantly expressed and associated iwth microvesicles in rat pinealocytes; title: Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and NPY receptors in the rat pineal gland; title: Signal transduction in the rodent pineal organ: from the membrane to the nucleus; title: Regulatin of melatonin synthesis in the ovine pineal gland: an in vivo and in vitro study; title: Melatonin modulation of prolactin and gonadotrophin secretion: systems ancient and modern; title: The Siberian hamster as a model for study of the mammalian photoperiodic mechanism; title: How does the melatonin receptor decode a photoperiodic signal in the pars tuberalis?; title: Daily and circadian expression pattersn of mt₁ melatonin recptor mRNA in the rat pars tuberalis; title: Molecular pharmacology and function of melatonin receptor subtypes; title: Mechanisms of melatonin action in the pituitary and SCN; title: The roles of melatonin in development; title: Investigatin of the human mel 1a melatonin receptor using anti-receptors antibodies; title: A pharmacological interaction between melatonin and the Ü₂-Adrenoceptor in cuckoo wrasse melanophores.