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Chemical Structure of Melatonine.

Harry J. Witchel Harry.Witchel at bristol.ac.uk
Mon Mar 25 04:54:53 EST 1996


Lloyd --
	Melatonin is made by the pineal gland.  Chemically it is an indole.  
It seems important in the regulation of circadian rhythms, and it is produced 
in higher quanitity at night.  A general reference would be the chapter on the 
endocrine system in Review of Medical Physiology by W. F. Ganong.
	Harry


In article <4j1t91$bim at news1.io.org>, factory at io.org says...
>
>I'm an Graduating Student from Canada.
>
>        I'm trying to do some reasearch on Melatonin.
>
>        Can someone please point me to a 
>site/book/reasource for the following information:
>
>        The chemical composition?
>        How it reacts with the body/mind?
>        What/which glad produces it?
>        How it is produced artificially?
>
>
>        thanks...  Lloyd Leung, factory at io.org
>





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