What is the role of melatonin within the anterior pituitary?

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 493-501

  Hazlerigg, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; PINEAL BODY HORMONE; PROLACTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HYPOPHYSIS PARS DISTALIS; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; REVIEW; SEASON; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; MELATONIN; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN;

EID: 0034824242     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1700493     Document Type: Review

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