Pineal Melatonin, Its Fundamental Immunoregulatory Role in Aging and Cancer

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 521, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 140-148

  MAESTRONI, GEORGES J M ^a   CONTI, ARIO ^a   PIERPAOLI, WALTER ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Institute for Integrative Biomedical Research ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; RADIOISOTOPE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIFESPAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STRESS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY FORMATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LONGEVITY; MELATONIN; MICE; NEOPLASMS; PINEAL GLAND; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS;

EID: 0023810955     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1988.tb35272.x     Document Type: Article

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