The pineal neurohormone melatonin and its physiologic opiatergic immunoregulatory role
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz; 82 (supl.2), 1987
The pineal gland functions as a neuroendocrine transducer that coordinate the organism response to changing environmental stimuli such as light and temperature. The main and best known pineal neurohormone is melatonin that is synthesized and released in a circadian fashion with a peak during the night da...