Nuclear localization of melatonin in different mammalian tissues: Immunocytochemical and radioimmunoassay evidence

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 373-382

  Menendez‐Pelaez, Armando ^a,b   Poeggeler, Burkhard ^a   Reiter, Russel J ^a   Barlow‐Walden, Lornell ^a   Pablos, Marta I ^a   Tan, Dun‐xian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

baboon; brain; cell fractionation; gut; hamster; liver; mouse; pinealectomy; rat

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; BRAIN; CELL NUCLEUS; HAMSTER; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHROMATIN; HAMSTERS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINETICS; LIVER; MELATONIN; MESOCRICETUS; PAPIO; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0027763443     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.240530415     Document Type: Article

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