Endocrine secretions under abnormal light-dark cycles and in the blind

Hormone Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 153-157

  Bellastella, Antonio ^a   Pisano, Gustavo ^a   Iorio, Sergio ^a   Pasquali, Daniela ^a   Orio, Francesco ^a   Venditto, Teresa ^a   Sinisi, Antonio Agostino ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adrenal function; Blindness; Gonadal; Growth hormone; Melatonin; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELATONIN; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

BLINDNESS; BODY GROWTH; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DELAYED PUBERTY; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GONAD FUNCTION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; THYROID FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; HUMANS; LIGHTING;

EID: 0031909358     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000023163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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