Use of nocturnal melatonin concentration and urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin excretion to evaluate melatonin status in children with severe sepsis

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 24, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1025-1030

  Bagci, Soyhan ^a   Yildizdas, Dincer ^b   Horoz, Özden Özgür ^b   Reinsberg, Jochen ^a   Bartmann, Peter ^a   Mueller, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

6 sulphatoxymelatonin; children; hepatic dysfunction; melatonin; sepsis

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROXYMELATONIN O SULFATE; MELATONIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MELATONIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 83655172838     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: 21910251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPEM.2011.402     Document Type: Article

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