Do birth variable data predict melatonin production in 8- to 9-year-old children? Analysis of excreted 6-sulfatoxymelatonin

Hormone Research

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 156-160

  Griefahn, Barbara ^a   Blaszkewicz, Meinolf ^a   Bröde, Peter ^a   Remer, Thomas ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHILD NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

6 sulfatoxymelatonin excretion; Actual body size; Birth variable data; Children, melatonin excretion

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROXYMELATONIN O SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE VOLUME;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MELATONIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 4644236249     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080072     Document Type: Article

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