Melatonin, menopause, and thyroid function in gynecologic endocrinology: what is the role?
José Maria Soares Junior,
Dzemail Detanac,
Ilker Sengul
et al.
Abstract:Melatonin (MTN), a neurohormone primarily synthesized and secreted mainly by the pine cone-shaped gland of the cerebrum, named as the conarium or epiphysis cerebri, from amino acid tryptophan, was first isolated from the bovine pineal gland by Lerner et al 1 . However, the 17th-century philosopher René Descartes hypothesized that the pineal gland of the brain, which remains poorly understood to date, represents the location of the homo sapiens soul; paleontologists described it as an ancestral "third eye"; an… Show more
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