Iron decreases the nuclear but not the cytosolic content of the neurohormone melatonin in several tissues in chicks

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 317-321

  Pablos, Marta I ^a   Teresa Agapito, M ^a   Menéndez Pelaez, Armando ^b   Acuña Castroviejo, Darío ^c   Reiter, Russel J ^d   Recio, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

chicks; cytosol; erythrocytes; iron; melatonin; nucleus; pineal gland; tissues

Indexed keywords

IRON; MELATONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKENS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYTOSOL; IRON; MELATONIN; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOTOPERIOD; PINEAL GLAND;

EID: 9044221763     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4644(19960301)60:3<317::AID-JCB3>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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