Does melatonin play a disease-promoting role in rheumatoid arthritis?

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 158, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 106-111

  Maestroni, Georges J M ^a   Cardinali, Daniel P ^b   Esquifino, Ana I ^c   Pandi Perumal, S R ^d  

^a Cantonal Institute of Pathology   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d Dept Neurol Coll Med SUNY D   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Corticosteroids; Freund's adjuvant arthritis; Inflammatory cytokines; Melatonin; Rheumatoid arthritis; T helper 1

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT; MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; NEUROHORMONE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PINEALECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MELATONIN; PERIODICITY;

EID: 10344234730     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2004.08.015     Document Type: Article

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