Melatonin Measurements in Tissues: Different Recovery of Endogenously Contained and Exogenously Added Melatonin

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 398, Issue , 1996, Pages 691-696

  George, A ^a   Poeggeler, B ^a   Huether, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MELATONIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030340598     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0381-7_111     Document Type: Article

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