Melatonin: marvel or marker?

The timed infusion paradigm for melatonin delivery: What has it taught us about the melatonin signal, its reception, and the photoperiodic control of seasonal responses?

1993 • 525 citations

Improvement of sleep quality in elderly people by controlled-release melatonin

1995 • 488 citations

Human Melatonin Production Decreases With Age

1986 • 411 citations

Melatonin Replacement Therapy of Elderly Insomniacs

1995 • 352 citations

Mammalian pineal melatonin: A clock for all seasons

1989 • 310 citations

Photoperiodic control of seasonal body weight cycles in hamsters

1985 • 281 citations

Some effects of jet-lag and their alleviation by melatonin

1987 • 267 citations

Melatonin Administration to Blind People: Phase Advances and Entrainment

1991 • 251 citations

Annual Rhythm of Human Reproduction: I. Biology, Sociology, or Both?

1990 • 217 citations

Melatonin-induced temperature suppression and its acute phase-shifting effects correlate in a dose-dependent manner in humans

1995 • 209 citations

Expression of melatonin receptors in arteries involved in thermoregulation.

1990 • 207 citations

Early evening melatonin and S-20098 advance circadian phase and nocturnal regulation of core body temperature

1997 • 197 citations

Melatonin receptors in human hypothalamus and pituitary: implications for circadian and reproductive responses to melatonin.

1993 • 188 citations

Melatonin administration in insomnia.

1990 • 157 citations

Progonadal Role of the Pineal in the Djungarian Hamster (Phodopus sungorus sungorus): Mediation by Melatonin*

1983 • 156 citations

Melatonin stabilises sleep onset time in a blind man without entrainment of cortisol or temperature rhythms

1990 • 153 citations

Effects of aging on light-induced phase-shifting of circadian behavioral rhythms, Fos expression and creb phosphorylation in the hamster suprachiasmatic nucleus

1996 • 143 citations

Testicular Function and Pelage Color Have Different Critical Daylengths in the Djungarian Hamster,Phodopus sungorus sungorus*

1985 • 133 citations

Complex Effects of Melatonin on Human Circadian Rhythms in Constant Dim Light

1997 • 113 citations

Biologic Effects of Light

1992 • 95 citations

Melatonin and S-20098 increase REM sleep and wake-up propensity without modifying NREM sleep homeostasis

1997 • 90 citations

Modulation of voltage-dependent Ca2+ conductance by changing Cl- concentration in rat lactotrophs

1997 • 90 citations

Advances in Pineal Research

1994 • 89 citations

Melatonin and insomnia

1996 • 85 citations

Melationin: Nature's Soporific?

1996 • 68 citations

Hypothalamic integration of circadian rhythms

1996 • 66 citations

Influence of aging on the seasonal rhythm of the vasopressin-expressing neurons in the human suprachiasmatic nucleus

1995 • 63 citations

Effects of melatonin on long-day responses in short-day housed adult Siberian hamsters

1988 • 59 citations

Effect of Melatonin Infusion Duration and Frequency on Gonad, Lipid, and Body Mass in Pinealectomized Male Siberian Hamsters1

1989 • 48 citations

Melatonin excretion is not related to sleep in the elderly

1998 • 44 citations

Potential of Melatonin Replacement Therapy in Older Patients with Sleep Disorders

1995 • 42 citations

Melatonin enhances the luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone responses to gonadotropin-releasing hormone in the follicular, but not in the luteal, menstrual phase.

1995 • 35 citations

Exogenous melatonin enhances luteinizing hormone levels of women in the follicular but not in the luteal menstrual phase

1995 • 34 citations

Suppression of basal luteinizing hormone concentrations by melatonin in postmenopausal women

1984 • 22 citations

Evolution of melatonin as a night signal: Contribution from a primitive photosynthetic organism

1992 • 16 citations

The Influence of Age, Sex, Height, Weight, Urine Volume and Latitude on Melatonin Concentrations in Urine from Normal Subjects: A Multinational Study

1993 • 15 citations

Sleep deprivation reduces LH secretion in men independently of melatonin

1991 • 6 citations

Remembrance: growing up with the pineal gland: early recollections

1992 • 3 citations

Melatonin: Historical Aspects**This paper is modified in parts from an essay written by the author for the European Pineal Study Group Newsletter, number 4, September 1980.

1993 • 3 citations

Remembrance: growing up with the pineal gland: early recollections.

1992 • 1 citations

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