The evaluation of melatonin as a possible antidepressive
Melatonin, a hormone of the pineal gland, was evaluated in a variety of animal models of depression. Measurements of the frog righting reflex and rat locomotor activity showed that low doses of melatonin have a serotonin-like potentiating effect following monoamine oxidase inhibition. High doses of...
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Rhodes University
1980
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001465 |