Effect of melatonin on neurobehavioral development of rats

Biologia - Section Cellular and Molecular Biology

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL. 17, 2005, Pages 37-40

  Dubovický, Michal ^a   Ujházy, Eduard ^a   Kovačovský, Pavel ^b   Navarová, Jana ^a   Juránek, Ivo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Brain; Melatonin; Neurobehavioral development; Offspring; Pregnancy; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33751341280     PISSN: 13356399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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