Relationship between melatonin rhythms and visual loss in the blind

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3763-3770

  Lockley, Steven W ^a   Skene, Debra J ^a   Arendt, Josephine ^a   Tabandeh, Homayoun ^b   Bird, Alan C ^b   Defrance, Remy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROXYMELATONIN O SULFATE; MELATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINE LEVEL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

UNCLASSIFIED ORGANISMS;

EID: 0030670459     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.82.11.3763     Document Type: Article

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