Acute effects of unilateral or bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomy on rat pineal N-acetyltransferase activity and melatonin content
- 1 May 1979
- journal article
- specialia
- Published by Springer Nature in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Vol. 35 (5) , 691-692
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01960402
Abstract
Acute bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomy (SCGX) completely prevents the nocturnal rises in pineal N-acetyltransferase (NAT) activity and melatonin content in male rats kept in light-dark cycles of 14∶10. Unilateral SCGX causes the NAT and melatonin levels to be intermediate between those in sham-operated control rats and those in rats from which both ganglia had been removed.Keywords
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