Melatonin the "light of night" in human biology and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Scoliosis

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Grivas, Theodoros B ^a   Savvidou, Olga D ^a  

^a THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

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EID: 34248381641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17487161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7161-2-6     Document Type: Review

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