High membrane permeability for melatonin
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High membrane permeability for melatonin
The pineal gland, an endocrine organ in the brain, synthesizes and secretes the circulating night hormone melatonin throughout the night. The literature states that this hormone is secreted by simple diffusion across the pinealocyte plasma membrane, but a direct quantitative measurement of membrane permeability has not been made. Experiments were designed to compare the cell membrane permeabili...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Physiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1540-7748,0022-1295
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201511526