The pineal neurohormone melatonin stimulates activated CD4+, Thy-1+ cells to release opioid agonist(s) with immunoenhancing and anti-stress properties
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Neuroimmunology
- Vol. 28 (2) , 167-176
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-5728(90)90031-h
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