Melatonin synthesis: Analysis of the more than 150-fold nocturnal increase in serotonin N-acetyltransferase messenger ribonucleic acid in the rat pineal gland

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3033-3044

  Roseboom, Patrick H ^a   Coon, Steven L ^a   Baler, Ruben ^a   Mccune, Susan K ^b   Weller, Joan L ^a   Klein, David C ^a,c  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN N ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DARKNESS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; LIGHT; MALE; MELATONIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENYLEPHRINE; PINEAL GLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029894818     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.137.7.3033     Document Type: Article

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