Melatonin administration and pituitary hormone secretion

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-37

  Kostoglou Athanassiou, Ifigenia ^a,b   Treacher, David F ^a   Wheeler, Michael J ^a   Forsling, Mary L ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b 165A Grey Turner House ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; MELATONIN;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MELATONIN; OXYTOCIN; PITUITARY GLAND, POSTERIOR; PITUITARY HORMONES; PROLACTIN; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 0031889447     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00341.x     Document Type: Article

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