Recent advances in renal melatonin receptors

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 21, Issue , 1996, Pages 115-122

  Song, Y ^a,b   Lee, P J P N ^b   Chan, C W Y ^b   Brown, G M ^b   Pang, S F ^b   Silverman, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

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