5-hydroxytryptophan Elevates Serum Melatonin
- 12 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 221 (4611) , 659-661
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6867734
Abstract
Daytime administration of 5-hydroxytryptophan to sheep elevated serum melatonin more than sevenfold within 2 hours. This suggests that administration of 5-hydroxytryptophan could be used as the basis of a clinical test of pineal function and that melatonin might mediate some clinical effects of 5-hydroxytryptophan.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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