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Cerebrospinal Fluid Melatonin

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Neurobiology of Cerebrospinal Fluid 1

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The history of melatonin starts in 1917, with the discovery that mammalian pineal gland extracts have the ability to lighten amphibian skin.14 About 40 years later, the skin-lightening constituent of the pineal gland, melatonin, was isolated and chemically identified as N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine by Lerner et al. 13

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  1. Section on Neuroendocrinology, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20205, USA

    Steven M. Reppert M.D. & David C. Klein Ph.D.

  2. Laboratory of Clinical Psychopharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C., 20032, USA

    Mark J. Perlow M.D.

  3. Children’s Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, USA

    Steven M. Reppert M.D.

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Reppert, S.M., Klein, D.C., Perlow, M.J. (1980). Cerebrospinal Fluid Melatonin. In: Wood, J.H. (eds) Neurobiology of Cerebrospinal Fluid 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1039-6_40

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