Melatonin receptors, pars tuberalis and photoperiodic response

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 21, Issue , 1996, Pages 84-89

  Masson Pévet, Mireille ^a   Gauer, François ^a   Recio, Joaquin ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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