The role of melatonin as a link between head injury and enhanced osteogenesis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 605-606

  Kesemenli, Cumhur Cevdet ^a   Necmioǧlu, Serdar ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE METABOLISM; CALLUS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLUOROMETRY; FRACTURE HEALING; HEAD INJURY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LONG BONE; NIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ANIMALS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MELATONIN; OSTEOGENESIS;

EID: 21844448643     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.02.032     Document Type: Article

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