Oncostatic activity of pineal neuroendocrine treatment with the pineal indoles melatonin and 5-methoxytryptamine in untreatable metastatic cancer patients progressing on melatonin alone

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 319-323

  Lissoni, P ^a   Rovelli, F ^a   Frassineti, A ^a   Fumagalli, L ^a   Malysheva, O ^a   Conti, A ^a   Maestroni, G ^a  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Immunomodulation; Melatonin; Methoxytryptamine; Pineal indoles

Indexed keywords

5 METHOXYTRYPTAMINE; MELATONIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PINEAL BODY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR IMMUNITY;

EID: 0033876116     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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