Effect of melatonin on 24-hour rhythms of ornithine decarboxylase activity and norepinephrine and acetylcholine synthesis in submaxillary lymph nodes and spleen of young and aged rats

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 349-362

  Cardinali, Daniel P ^a   Brusco, Luis I ^a   Bonacho, Manuel García ^b   Esquifino, Ana I ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Aging; Arthritis; Catecholamines; Lymph nodes; Melatonin; Neuroimmune interactions; Ornithine decarboxylase; Pineal gland; Rhythms; Spleen; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; FREUND ADJUVANT; MELATONIN; NORADRENALIN; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; ISOTOPE LABELING; LYMPH NODE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, EXPERIMENTAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MAXILLA; MELATONIN; NOREPINEPHRINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PINEAL GLAND; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0031982313     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000054333     Document Type: Article

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