Contrasting Findings on Melatonin Concerning Inflammation and Glucose Tolerance - Consequences to the Development of Melatonergic Drugs

Rüdiger Hardeland
Additional contact information
Rüdiger Hardeland: University of Goettingen

Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 2017, vol. 1, issue 1, 6-8

Abstract: The pleiotropy of melatonin is a reason for using this hormone or synthetic melatonergic agonists for testing their suitability in various diseases and disorders. However, it is important to remain aware that many preclinical findings cannot be translated to humans, because of the different relationship between melatonin and sleep or activity in diurnally compared to nocturnally active mammals...

Keywords: Biomedical Sciences; Biomedical Research; Technical research; Inflammaging; Inflammation; Insulin Resistance; Melatonin; Type 2 Diabetes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://biomedres.us/pdfs/BJSTR.MS.ID.000103.pdf (application/pdf)
https://biomedres.us/fulltexts/BJSTR.MS.ID.000103.php (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:abf:journl:v:1:y:2017:i:1:p:6-8

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000103

Access Statistics for this article

Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research is currently edited by Robert Thomas

More articles in Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research from Biomedical Research Network+, LLC
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Angela Roy ().