A half-yearly aspect of circulating melatonin in pregnancies complicated by intrauterine growth retardation

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 55-68

  Maggioni, Cristina ^a   Cornelissen, Germaine ^b   Antinozzi, Roberto ^c   Ferrario, Marco ^a   Grafe, Armin ^d   Halberg, Franz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c SANT ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronome; Geomagnetics; Intrauterine growth retardation; Melatonin; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; MELATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 0032713446     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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