melatonin has been researched along with Blindness in 138 studies
Blindness: The inability to see or the loss or absence of perception of visual stimuli. This condition may be the result of EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; OPTIC CHIASM diseases; or BRAIN DISEASES affecting the VISUAL PATHWAYS or OCCIPITAL LOBE.
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"This review proposes an overall vision of the protective and therapeutic role of melatonin in breast cancer: from the specific cases of blind women and their reduction of breast cancer incidence to all clinical uses of the sleep hormone in breast cancer." | 9.22 | Protective role of melatonin in breast cancer: what we can learn from women with blindness. ( Amé, S; Coliat, P; Mathelin, C; Minella, C; Neuberger, K; Reix, N; Stora, A, 2022) |
"The hypothesis is advanced that blindness from an early age may lead to a reduced risk of breast cancer through altered patterns of melatonin secretion by the pineal gland." | 8.78 | Breast cancer, blindness and melatonin. ( Coleman, MP; Reiter, RJ, 1992) |
"Melatonin has chronobiotic properties in humans." | 6.40 | Efficacy of melatonin treatment in jet lag, shift work, and blindness. ( Arendt, J; Deacon, S; Lockley, SW; Middleton, B; Skene, DJ, 1997) |
"This review proposes an overall vision of the protective and therapeutic role of melatonin in breast cancer: from the specific cases of blind women and their reduction of breast cancer incidence to all clinical uses of the sleep hormone in breast cancer." | 5.22 | Protective role of melatonin in breast cancer: what we can learn from women with blindness. ( Amé, S; Coliat, P; Mathelin, C; Minella, C; Neuberger, K; Reix, N; Stora, A, 2022) |
" This article focuses on the following specific neurologic diseases: nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy and abnormal motor behaviors of epileptic origin, evaluating differential diagnosis with parasomnias; achondroplasia, confirming the crucial role of craniofacial deformity in determining sleep-disordered breathing; neuromuscular diseases, mainly Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and myotonic dystrophy; cerebral palsy, evaluating either the features of sleep architecture and the importance of the respiratory problems associated; headaches, confirming the strict relationships with sleep in terms of neurochemical and neurobehavioral substrates; and finally a review on the effectiveness of melatonin for sleep problems in children with neurologic syndromes and mental retardation, blindness, and epilepsy." | 4.81 | Sleep disorders in children with neurologic diseases. ( Bruni, O; Zucconi, M, 2001) |
"The hypothesis is advanced that blindness from an early age may lead to a reduced risk of breast cancer through altered patterns of melatonin secretion by the pineal gland." | 4.78 | Breast cancer, blindness and melatonin. ( Coleman, MP; Reiter, RJ, 1992) |
" Because blindness is associated with a greater incidence of free-running circadian rhythms, we controlled for circadian phase by a measure of melatonin onset timing." | 3.88 | Sleep structure in blindness is influenced by circadian desynchrony. ( Aubin, S; Jennum, P; Kupers, R; Nielsen, T; Ptito, M, 2018) |
"A possible resetting of pituitary-thyroid axis regulation can occur in blindness after puberty; variations of melatonin secretion could play a role in this." | 3.69 | Melatonin and the pituitary-thyroid axis status in blind adults: a possible resetting after puberty. ( Bellastella, A; Carella, C; Criscuolo, T; De Bellis, A; Iorio, S; Parlato, F; Pisano, G; Sinisi, AA; Sinisi, AM; Venditto, T, 1995) |
"Caffeine treatment significantly improved daytime alertness at adverse circadian phases (p <0." | 2.80 | Caffeine does not entrain the circadian clock but improves daytime alertness in blind patients with non-24-hour rhythms. ( Lockley, SW; St Hilaire, MA, 2015) |
"When melatonin treatment ceased, cortisol and aMT6s rhythms free ran at a similar period to before treatment." | 2.71 | The effects of low-dose 0.5-mg melatonin on the free-running circadian rhythms of blind subjects. ( Arendt, J; Hack, LM; Lockley, SW; Skene, DJ, 2003) |
"This condition causes recurrent insomnia and daytime sleepiness when the rhythms drift out of phase with the normal 24-hour cycle." | 2.69 | Entrainment of free-running circadian rhythms by melatonin in blind people. ( Brandes, RW; Kendall, AR; Lewy, AJ; Sack, RL, 2000) |
"Oral melatonin therapy was used to treat-severe circadian sleep-wake disturbances in eight children and young adults in an open study." | 2.68 | Long-term melatonin treatment in blind children and young adults with circadian sleep-wake disturbances. ( Blennow, G; Palm, L; Wetterberg, L, 1997) |
"Melatonin has been shown to correct the underlying circadian rhythm abnormality as well as improve sleep and reduce daytime napping." | 2.44 | Circadian rhythm sleep disorders in the blind and their treatment with melatonin. ( Arendt, J; Skene, DJ, 2007) |
"Melatonin clearly has the ability to induce sleepiness and lower core body temperature during "biological day" and to change the timing of human rhythms when treatment is appropriately timed." | 2.43 | Melatonin: characteristics, concerns, and prospects. ( Arendt, J, 2005) |
"Melatonin is the treatment of choice for blind people with non-24 h sleep/wake disorder." | 2.42 | Optimization of light and melatonin to phase-shift human circadian rhythms. ( Skene, DJ, 2003) |
"Melatonin has chronobiotic properties in humans." | 2.40 | Efficacy of melatonin treatment in jet lag, shift work, and blindness. ( Arendt, J; Deacon, S; Lockley, SW; Middleton, B; Skene, DJ, 1997) |
"Melatonin treatment has also been evaluated in the circadian sleep disorders: delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) and non-24-hour sleep wake disorder." | 2.40 | Use of melatonin in the treatment of phase shift and sleep disorders. ( Arendt, J; Lockley, SW; Skene, DJ, 1999) |
"Treatment with melatonin prevented premature aging and tumorigenesis in rodents." | 1.38 | Light-at-night-induced circadian disruption, cancer and aging. ( Anisimov, VN; Panchenko, AV; Popovich, IG; Vinogradova, IA; Zabezhinski, MA, 2012) |
"The possibility that a portion of the breast cancer burden might be explained by the introduction and increasing use of electricity to light the night was suggested >20 years ago." | 1.35 | Light-at-night, circadian disruption and breast cancer: assessment of existing evidence. ( Stevens, RG, 2009) |
"Melatonin was analysed in the saliva by radioimmunoassay after exposure to light (600 lux for 1 hour) (nocturnal melatonin suppression test)." | 1.35 | [Alterations in nocturnal melatonin secretion in patients with optic neuropathies]. ( Arribas-Gómez, I; Blanco, R; de la Villa, P; Germain, F; Paz-Moreno, J; Pérez-Rico, C, 2009) |
" The resulting log-linear dose-response curve in the physiological range adds support for a circadian function of endogenous melatonin in humans." | 1.33 | Melatonin entrains free-running blind people according to a physiological dose-response curve. ( Emens, JS; Jackman, AR; Lefler, BJ; Lewy, AJ; Yuhas, K, 2005) |
"Congenital blindness, acquired blindness, presence of bilateral prosthetic eyes or presence of normal human eyes did not produce different nocturnal sleep and 'free-running' pattern results." | 1.31 | Sleep/wake cycles in the dark: sleep recorded by polysomnography in 26 totally blind subjects compared to controls. ( Guilleminault, C; Leger, D; Paillard, M; Santos, C, 2002) |
"The melatonin onset was used as the indicator of circadian phase." | 1.31 | Effects of aging on the intrinsic circadian period of totally blind humans. ( Kendall, AR; Lewy, AJ; Sack, RL, 2001) |
"Melatonin is a promising treatment alternative for serious sleep problems in blind children." | 1.31 | [Melatonin treatment of a blind child with serious sleep disorders]. ( Loge, JH; Ramstad, K, 2002) |
"Melatonin rhythms were assessed in 49 registered blind individuals by measurement of the urinary metabolite of melatonin, 6-sulfatoxymelatonin (aMT6s)." | 1.30 | Relationship between melatonin rhythms and visual loss in the blind. ( Arendt, J; Bird, AC; Defrance, R; Lockley, SW; Skene, DJ; Tabandeh, H, 1997) |
"Melatonin is a hormone primarily produced by the pineal gland at night and is suppressed by exposure to light." | 1.30 | Reduced cancer incidence among the blind. ( Ahlbom, A; Feychting, M; Osterlund, B, 1998) |
"24 hr) by chronic administration of melatonin." | 1.28 | Feedback in the rabbit's central circadian system, revealed by the changes in its free-running food intake pattern induced by blinding, cervical sympathectomy, pinealectomy, and melatonin administration. ( Bobbert, AC; Riethoven, JJ, 1991) |
"A 9-year-old, blind boy with severe mental retardation with a chronic sleep/wake disturbance had a circadian rhythm of 24." | 1.28 | Correction of non-24-hour sleep/wake cycle by melatonin in a blind retarded boy. ( Blennow, G; Palm, L; Wetterberg, L, 1991) |
"Melatonin-treated mole rats exhibited reduction both in initial body temperature (Tbo) and in the decrease of body temperature (delta Tb) after 6 hours of exposure to cold." | 1.27 | The effect of melatonin administration and short exposures to cold on body temperature of the blind subterranean mole rat (Rodentia, Spalax ehrenberghi, Nehring). ( Beiles, A; Heth, G; Nevo, E; Pevet, P, 1986) |
"The minimal dosage of melatonin required to inhibit pineal antigonad otropic activity was ascertained in blinded male golden hamsters." | 1.25 | Studies on the minimal dosage of melatonin required to inhibit pineal antigonadotrophic activity in male golden hamsters. ( Reiter, RJ; Vaughan, MK; Waring, PJ, 1975) |
Timeframe | Studies, this research(%) | All Research% |
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pre-1990 | 57 (41.30) | 18.7374 |
1990's | 42 (30.43) | 18.2507 |
2000's | 29 (21.01) | 29.6817 |
2010's | 8 (5.80) | 24.3611 |
2020's | 2 (1.45) | 2.80 |
Authors | Studies |
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Minella, C | 1 |
Coliat, P | 1 |
Amé, S | 1 |
Neuberger, K | 1 |
Stora, A | 1 |
Mathelin, C | 1 |
Reix, N | 1 |
Atan, YS | 1 |
Subaşı, M | 1 |
Güzel Özdemir, P | 1 |
Batur, M | 1 |
Aubin, S | 2 |
Jennum, P | 2 |
Nielsen, T | 1 |
Kupers, R | 2 |
Ptito, M | 2 |
Hull, JT | 1 |
Czeisler, CA | 7 |
Lockley, SW | 11 |
Hartley, S | 1 |
Dauvilliers, Y | 1 |
Quera-Salva, MA | 1 |
St Hilaire, MA | 1 |
Emens, JS | 8 |
Eastman, CI | 1 |
Stevens, RG | 1 |
Pérez-Rico, C | 1 |
de la Villa, P | 1 |
Blanco, R | 1 |
Germain, F | 1 |
Paz-Moreno, J | 1 |
Arribas-Gómez, I | 1 |
Emens, J | 3 |
Lewy, AJ | 21 |
Laurie, AL | 1 |
Songer, JB | 1 |
Anisimov, VN | 1 |
Vinogradova, IA | 1 |
Panchenko, AV | 1 |
Popovich, IG | 1 |
Zabezhinski, MA | 1 |
Leger, D | 1 |
Guilleminault, C | 1 |
Santos, C | 1 |
Paillard, M | 1 |
Klerman, EB | 4 |
Shanahan, TL | 3 |
Brotman, DJ | 2 |
Rimmer, DW | 2 |
Rizzo, JF | 3 |
Skene, DJ | 11 |
Sack, RL | 14 |
Hasler, BP | 4 |
Bernert, RA | 3 |
Hack, LM | 1 |
Arendt, J | 15 |
Fischer, S | 1 |
Smolnik, R | 1 |
Herms, M | 1 |
Born, J | 1 |
Fehm, HL | 1 |
Lefler, BJ | 3 |
Yuhas, K | 2 |
Jackman, AR | 1 |
Jackman, A | 1 |
Nunes, Oda S | 1 |
Pereira, Rde S | 1 |
Dijk, DJ | 3 |
Kosti, O | 1 |
Smith, JA | 1 |
O'Hara, J | 1 |
Schiff, AA | 1 |
Niles, LP | 4 |
Brown, GM | 4 |
Chambers, JW | 1 |
Pang, SF | 4 |
Karsch, FJ | 1 |
Bittman, EL | 1 |
Foster, DL | 1 |
Goodman, RL | 1 |
Legan, SJ | 1 |
Robinson, JE | 1 |
Blask, DE | 3 |
Leadem, CA | 1 |
Stockmeier, CA | 1 |
Petterborg, LJ | 2 |
Paull, WK | 1 |
Gibbs, FP | 2 |
Vriend, J | 5 |
Chanda, S | 2 |
Biswas, NM | 2 |
Newsome, DA | 1 |
Rollag, MD | 1 |
Dipinto, MN | 1 |
Stetson, MH | 1 |
Vaughan, MK | 7 |
Powanda, MC | 1 |
Brainard, GC | 1 |
Johnson, LY | 1 |
Reiter, RJ | 17 |
Vaughan, GM | 3 |
Seraile, LG | 1 |
Chen, HJ | 1 |
Trakulrungsi, C | 1 |
Trakulrungsi, WK | 1 |
Lockley, S | 1 |
Tabandeh, H | 3 |
Skene, D | 2 |
Buttery, R | 1 |
Bird, A | 1 |
Defrace, R | 1 |
Ito, J | 1 |
Saijo, H | 1 |
Tanaka, H | 1 |
Tasaki, T | 1 |
Chou, K | 1 |
Lapierre, O | 1 |
Dumont, M | 1 |
Moore, RY | 3 |
Martens, H | 2 |
Klein, T | 2 |
Jan, JE | 2 |
Espezel, H | 1 |
Appleton, RE | 1 |
Kronauer, RE | 2 |
Seely, EW | 1 |
Partonen, T | 1 |
Vakkuri, O | 1 |
Lamberg-Allardt, C | 1 |
Bellastella, A | 2 |
Sinisi, AA | 2 |
Criscuolo, T | 2 |
De Bellis, A | 2 |
Carella, C | 2 |
Iorio, S | 2 |
Sinisi, AM | 1 |
Parlato, F | 1 |
Venditto, T | 1 |
Pisano, G | 2 |
Honma, S | 1 |
Kanematsu, N | 1 |
Katsuno, Y | 1 |
Honma, K | 1 |
Matsumoto, M | 1 |
Blood, ML | 3 |
Bird, AC | 2 |
Defrance, R | 2 |
Stoerig, P | 1 |
Cowey, A | 1 |
Valdizán-Usón, JR | 1 |
Romero, F | 1 |
Almárcegui, MC | 1 |
Palm, L | 2 |
Blennow, G | 2 |
Wetterberg, L | 2 |
Middleton, B | 1 |
Deacon, S | 1 |
Hätönen, T | 1 |
Laakso, ML | 1 |
Heiskala, H | 1 |
Alila-Johansson, A | 1 |
Sainio, K | 1 |
Santavuori, P | 1 |
Hahn, RA | 1 |
Feychting, M | 1 |
Osterlund, B | 1 |
Ahlbom, A | 1 |
Jagota, A | 1 |
Olcese, J | 1 |
Harinarayana Rao, S | 1 |
Gupta, PD | 1 |
Butler, LJ | 1 |
James, K | 2 |
Thapan, K | 1 |
Wright, J | 2 |
Amato, G | 1 |
Bizzaro, A | 1 |
Muccitelli, VI | 1 |
Joshi, BN | 1 |
Udaykumar, K | 1 |
Brandes, RW | 1 |
Kendall, AR | 3 |
Zeitzer, JM | 1 |
Duffy, JF | 1 |
Khalsa, SB | 1 |
Bauer, VK | 1 |
Pires, ML | 1 |
Zucconi, M | 1 |
Bruni, O | 1 |
Laitinen, JT | 1 |
Porkka-Heiskanen, T | 1 |
Ramstad, K | 1 |
Loge, JH | 1 |
Bush, FM | 2 |
Seibel, HR | 3 |
Anderson, GR | 1 |
Sackman, JW | 1 |
Grota, LJ | 3 |
Chakraborty, J | 1 |
Sanyal, S | 1 |
Bhargava, HN | 1 |
Jain, AK | 1 |
Knigge, KM | 1 |
Sheridan, MN | 1 |
Kinson, GA | 2 |
Wilson, DA | 1 |
Rudeen, PK | 1 |
Waring, PJ | 2 |
Banks, AF | 1 |
Ralph, CL | 2 |
Binkley, S | 1 |
MacBride, SE | 1 |
Klein, DC | 2 |
Chazov, EI | 1 |
Veselova, SP | 1 |
Krivosheev, OG | 1 |
Isachenkov, VA | 1 |
Takahashi, K | 1 |
Katoh, Y | 1 |
Sugishita, M | 1 |
Takeuchi, Y | 1 |
Takashima, M | 1 |
Tzischinsky, O | 2 |
Pal, I | 1 |
Epstein, R | 2 |
Dagan, Y | 1 |
Lavie, P | 2 |
Nakagawa, H | 3 |
Coleman, MP | 1 |
Keith, LD | 2 |
Isaki, K | 1 |
Stevenson, J | 1 |
Bobbert, AC | 1 |
Riethoven, JJ | 1 |
Stehle, J | 1 |
Reuss, S | 1 |
Riemann, R | 1 |
Seidel, A | 1 |
Vollrath, L | 1 |
Chan, YS | 1 |
Cheung, YM | 1 |
Folkard, S | 1 |
Aldhous, M | 2 |
Kennett, H | 1 |
Cheng, KM | 1 |
Allen, AE | 1 |
Tsang, CW | 1 |
Wong, CO | 1 |
Nichols, CR | 1 |
Diaz López, B | 1 |
Menéndez Patterson, A | 1 |
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Roberts, MH | 1 |
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Rom-Bugoslavskaia, ES | 1 |
Thliveris, JA | 1 |
Blum, K | 2 |
Wallace, JE | 2 |
Merritt, JH | 2 |
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Fraschini, F | 1 |
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Trial | Phase | Enrollment | Study Type | Start Date | Status | ||
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Regulating Mood and Suicidal Ideation With Morning Light Exposure Treatment[NCT05616819] | 480 participants (Anticipated) | Interventional | 2023-03-01 | Not yet recruiting | |||
Characterization of Endogenous Melatonin Profiles in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.[NCT00691080] | 58 participants (Actual) | Observational | 2007-09-30 | Completed | |||
Melatonin Entrainment of Elderly Blind Free-runners[NCT00692094] | 12 participants (Actual) | Interventional | 2004-08-31 | Terminated (stopped due to Unique provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act prevented approval of second year no-cost-extension in which completion of analyses were planned.) | |||
Melatonin Studies of Blind Children[NCT00691444] | 10 participants (Actual) | Interventional | 2002-09-30 | Terminated (stopped due to Unique provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act prevented approval of second year no-cost-extension in which completion of analyses were planned.) | |||
Identification of Free-Running Rhythms in Blind Children[NCT00688935] | 9 participants (Actual) | Interventional | 2005-01-31 | Terminated (stopped due to Unique provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act prevented approval of second year no-cost-extension in which completion of analyses were planned.) | |||
Operational Evaluation of a Photic Countermeasure to Improve Alertness, Performance, and Mood During Nightshift Work on a 105-day Simulated Human Exploration Mission to Mars[NCT01169233] | 25 participants (Actual) | Interventional | 2008-08-31 | Completed | |||
Effects of Bright Light Treatment on Daytime Sleepiness and Nocturnal Sleep in Patients With Parkinson's Disease[NCT01338649] | 27 participants (Actual) | Interventional | 2007-11-30 | Completed | |||
[information is prepared from clinicaltrials.gov, extracted Sep-2024] |
ESS score range is 0-24; lower ESS scores indicate less daytime sleepiness; higher ESS scores indicate more severe sleepiness ESS will be taken and compared at screening and week 4 visits between the bright light exposure and dim-red light exposure groups. (NCT01338649)
Timeframe: baseline and 4 weeks
Intervention | score (Mean) |
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Bright White | 4.46 |
Dim Red Light | 1.77 |
23 reviews available for melatonin and Blindness
Article | Year |
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Protective role of melatonin in breast cancer: what we can learn from women with blindness.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Breast Neoplasms; Female; Humans; Incidence; Melatonin; Prospective Studies | 2022 |
Circadian Rhythm Disturbances in the Blind.
Topics: Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Melatonin; Sleep; Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm; Sleep Wake | 2018 |
Diagnosis and Treatment of Non-24-h Sleep-Wake Disorder in the Blind.
Topics: Benzofurans; Blindness; Circadian Clocks; Cyclopropanes; Humans; Melatonin; Sleep Wake Disorders | 2017 |
Optimization of light and melatonin to phase-shift human circadian rhythms.
Topics: Blindness; Chronobiology Disorders; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Light; Melatonin; Phototherapy; Sleep | 2003 |
Melatonin: characteristics, concerns, and prospects.
Topics: Blindness; Body Temperature; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Melatonin; Sleep; Vision, Ocular; Wakefulness | 2005 |
Circadian uses of melatonin in humans.
Topics: Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Melatonin; Periodicity; Seasonal Affective Disorder; Seasons; S | 2006 |
Circadian rhythm sleep disorders in the blind and their treatment with melatonin.
Topics: Blindness; Chronotherapy; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Melatonin; Sleep; Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhy | 2007 |
Melatonin and human chronobiology.
Topics: Blindness; Chronobiology Phenomena; Circadian Rhythm; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Female; Huma | 2007 |
Neuroendocrine basis of seasonal reproduction.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Castration; Estradiol; Estrus; Feedback; Female; Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone; | 1984 |
Blindsight in man and monkey.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Geniculate Bodies; Haplorhini; Humans; Melatonin; Nystagmus, Optokinetic; Photic | 1997 |
[Meta-analysis: trials with melatonin and its effect on the sleep. Letter].
Topics: Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Melatonin; Sleep | 1997 |
Melatonin as a chronobiotic: treatment of circadian desynchrony in night workers and the blind.
Topics: Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Melatonin; Work Schedule Tolerance | 1997 |
Efficacy of melatonin treatment in jet lag, shift work, and blindness.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Melatonin; Travel; Work Schedule Tolerance | 1997 |
Does blindness protect against cancers?
Topics: Blindness; Humans; Incidence; Melatonin; Neoplasms | 1998 |
Light, blindness and endocrine secretions.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Gonads; Hormones; Humans; Light; Male; Melatonin; Pine | 1999 |
Use of melatonin in the treatment of phase shift and sleep disorders.
Topics: Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Jet Lag Syndrome; Melatonin; Sleep Wake Disorders; Work Schedul | 1999 |
Physiological effects of light on the human circadian pacemaker.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Light; Melatonin; Pineal Gland; Suprachiasmatic Nucleus; | 2000 |
Sleep disorders in children with neurologic diseases.
Topics: Anticonvulsants; Blindness; Child; Child, Preschool; Diagnosis, Differential; Epilepsy; Headache; Hu | 2001 |
[Physiology of the biological clock and the relation of circadian rhythm disorders to illnesses].
Topics: Animals; Biological Clocks; Blindness; Chronobiology Disorders; Humans; Jet Lag Syndrome; Light; Mel | 1999 |
Pineal factors in the control of testicular function.
Topics: Androgens; Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Fertility; Gonadotropins, Pituitary; Hydroxysteroid Dehyd | 1976 |
Breast cancer, blindness and melatonin.
Topics: Blindness; Breast Neoplasms; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin | 1992 |
[The pineal body and the thyroid gland].
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Cricetinae; Female; Humans; Hyperthyroidism; Hypothyroidism; M | 1985 |
The pineal gland--a neuroendocrine transducer.
Topics: Adrenal Glands; Blindness; Brain; Electroencephalography; Female; Genitalia; Gonadotropins; Growth; | 1972 |
15 trials available for melatonin and Blindness
Article | Year |
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Caffeine does not entrain the circadian clock but improves daytime alertness in blind patients with non-24-hour rhythms.
Topics: Affect; Aged; Arousal; Blindness; Caffeine; Circadian Clocks; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; | 2015 |
The effects of low-dose 0.5-mg melatonin on the free-running circadian rhythms of blind subjects.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Male; Melatonin; Middle Ag | 2003 |
Melatonin acutely improves the neuroendocrine architecture of sleep in blind individuals.
Topics: Adjuvants, Immunologic; Adolescent; Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; Adult; Blindness; Cross-Over Studie | 2003 |
Regression of herpes viral infection symptoms using melatonin and SB-73: comparison with Acyclovir.
Topics: Acyclovir; Adult; Antiviral Agents; Blindness; Central Nervous System Depressants; Female; Herpes Ge | 2008 |
Suppression of melatonin secretion in some blind patients by exposure to bright light.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Light; Male; Melatonin; Middle | 1995 |
The treatment of sleep disorders with melatonin.
Topics: Adolescent; Blindness; Child; Child, Preschool; Chronic Disease; Circadian Rhythm; Disabled Persons; | 1994 |
Effects of exposure to morning bright light in the blind and sighted controls.
Topics: Adult; Affect; Aged; Blindness; Body Temperature; Calcifediol; Female; Humans; Light; Male; Melatoni | 1995 |
The amplitude of endogenous melatonin production is not affected by melatonin treatment in humans.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Photoperiod; Work Schedule Tolerance | 1997 |
Relationship between napping and melatonin in the blind.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Aging; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Sleep | 1997 |
Long-term melatonin treatment in blind children and young adults with circadian sleep-wake disturbances.
Topics: Administration, Oral; Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Blindness; Body Temperature; Child; Child, Pre | 1997 |
Bright light suppresses melatonin in blind patients with neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Age of Onset; Blindness; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Humans; Infant; Light; | 1998 |
Melatonin administration can entrain the free-running circadian system of blind subjects.
Topics: Adult; Biomarkers; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged | 2000 |
Entrainment of free-running circadian rhythms by melatonin in blind people.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Cross-Over Studies; Dyssomnias; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin; | 2000 |
Entrainment of free-running circadian rhythms by melatonin in blind people.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Cross-Over Studies; Dyssomnias; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin; | 2000 |
Entrainment of free-running circadian rhythms by melatonin in blind people.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Cross-Over Studies; Dyssomnias; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin; | 2000 |
Entrainment of free-running circadian rhythms by melatonin in blind people.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Cross-Over Studies; Dyssomnias; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin; | 2000 |
Pretreatment circadian period in free-running blind people may predict the phase angle of entrainment to melatonin.
Topics: Area Under Curve; Biological Clocks; Blindness; Chronobiology Disorders; Circadian Rhythm; Drug Admi | 2001 |
Melatonin administration to blind people: phase advances and entrainment.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Double-Blind Method; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Male; Melatonin; Sl | 1991 |
100 other studies available for melatonin and Blindness
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The Effect of Blindness on Biological Rhythms and the Consequences of Circadian Rhythm Disorder.
Topics: Blindness; Humans; Melatonin; Periodicity; Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm | 2023 |
Sleep structure in blindness is influenced by circadian desynchrony.
Topics: Adult; Biomarkers; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Sleep | 2018 |
Suppression of Melatonin Secretion in Totally Visually Blind People by Ocular Exposure to White Light: Clinical Characteristics.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Biomarkers; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; | 2018 |
Melatonin and cortisol profiles in the absence of light perception.
Topics: Adult; Area Under Curve; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Light; Male; M | 2017 |
Light-at-night, circadian disruption and breast cancer: assessment of existing evidence.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Breast Neoplasms; Chronobiology Disorders; Circadian Rhythm; Disease Models, Ani | 2009 |
[Alterations in nocturnal melatonin secretion in patients with optic neuropathies].
Topics: Afferent Pathways; Aged; Blindness; Case-Control Studies; Circadian Rhythm; Electroretinography; Fem | 2009 |
Rest-activity cycle and melatonin rhythm in blind free-runners have similar periods.
Topics: Actigraphy; Activity Cycles; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Biological Clocks; Blindness; Child; Circadian | 2010 |
Light-at-night-induced circadian disruption, cancer and aging.
Topics: Age Factors; Aging; Animals; Anticarcinogenic Agents; Blindness; Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; Ci | 2012 |
Sleep/wake cycles in the dark: sleep recorded by polysomnography in 26 totally blind subjects compared to controls.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Darkness; Female; Humans; Male; Marital Status; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Occupation | 2002 |
Photic resetting of the human circadian pacemaker in the absence of conscious vision.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Light; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged | 2002 |
Zeitgeber hierarchy in humans: resetting the circadian phase positions of blind people using melatonin.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Models, Biological | 2003 |
Eventual entrainment of the human circadian pacemaker by melatonin is independent of the circadian phase of treatment initiation: clinical implications.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Animals; Biological Clocks; Blindness; Chronobiology Disorders; Circadian Rhythm; Femal | 2004 |
Relative coordination to unknown "weak zeitgebers" in free-running blind individuals.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Light; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Running; Sa | 2005 |
Melatonin entrains free-running blind people according to a physiological dose-response curve.
Topics: Aged; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin | 2005 |
Alertness, mood and performance rhythm disturbances associated with circadian sleep disorders in the blind.
Topics: Adult; Affect; Aged; Arousal; Attention; Blindness; Choice Behavior; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Human | 2008 |
Altered diurnal serum melatonin rhythm in blind men.
Topics: Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Pineal Gland | 1981 |
Effects of P-chlorophenylalanine on pineal and endocrine function in the rat.
Topics: Adrenal Glands; Animals; Blindness; Brain Chemistry; Corticosterone; Endocrine Glands; Fenclonine; G | 1984 |
Differential responsiveness of the reproductive system of blind or melatonin-treated male hamsters to injections of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and/or prolactin.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Body Weight; Cricetinae; Drug Interactions; Genitalia, Male; Gonadotropin-Releas | 1984 |
An immunocytochemical study of the luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) system in the white-footed mouse: effect of blinding and melatonin.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Female; Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone; Histocytochemistry; Hypothalamus; Immuno | 1984 |
Counterantigonadotropic effect of melatonin administered via the drinking water.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drinking; Male; Melatonin; Mesocri | 1983 |
Progonadal effect of melatonin on dark exposed or blinded male toads, Bufo melanostictus.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Bufonidae; Cell Nucleus; Darkness; Leydig Cells; Male; Melatonin; Spermatogenesi | 1983 |
Effects of light on human melatonin production and the human circadian system.
Topics: Animals; Bipolar Disorder; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Light; Melatonin; Rats; Seasons | 1983 |
Coincidence of counter-antigonadal and counter-antithyroid action of melatonin administration via the drinking water in male golden hamsters.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drinking; Male; Melatonin; Mesocri | 1984 |
Different types of melatonin circadian secretory rhythms in some blind subjects.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Light; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Melatonin; Mi | 1983 |
Ontogeny of the gonadal response of golden hamsters to short photoperiod, blinding, and melatonin.
Topics: Aging; Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Estrus; Female; Gonads; Light; Male; Melatonin; Mesocricetus; | 1982 |
Effects of blinding or afternoon melatonin injections on plasma cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, TSH and thyroid hormone levels in male and female Syrian hamsters.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Blood Glucose; Cholesterol; Cricetinae; Female; Male; Melatonin; Mesocricetus; P | 1982 |
Thyroid hormones in male hamsters with activated pineals or melatonin treatment.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Environment, Controlled; Genitalia, Male; Light; Male; Melatonin; Me | 1982 |
Influence of subcutaneous deposits of melatonin on the antigonadotrophic effects of blinding and anosmia in male rats. A dose-response study.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Implants; Hormones; Luteinizing Hormone; | 1980 |
Surgical removal of the olfactory bulbs increases sensitivity of the reproductive system of female rats to the inhibitory effects of late afternoon melatonin injections.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Body Weight; Darkness; Drug Administration Schedule; Female; Gonadotropins, Pitu | 1980 |
Day-time naps and melatonin in blind people.
Topics: Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Melatonin; Sleep Wake Disorders | 1995 |
[Melatonin treatment for sleep-wake disorder--an experience for a severely mental retarded patient with blindness].
Topics: Administration, Oral; Blindness; Child; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Intellectual Disability; Male; Mel | 1995 |
Melatonin treatment of a non-24-hour sleep-wake cycle in a blind retarded child.
Topics: Blindness; Child, Preschool; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22; Circadian Rhythm; Dose-Response Relationsh | 1995 |
Vision without sight.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Melatonin; Vision, Ocular; Visual Perception | 1995 |
Human circadian rhythms: lessons from the blind.
Topics: Animals; Biological Clocks; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Light; Melatonin; Sleep | 1993 |
Circadian sleep regulation in the absence of light perception: chronic non-24-hour circadian rhythm sleep disorder in a blind man with a regular 24-hour sleep-wake schedule.
Topics: Blindness; Body Temperature; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Light; Male; Melatonin; Middl | 1993 |
Melatonin and the pituitary-thyroid axis status in blind adults: a possible resetting after puberty.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Blindness; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Pituitary Gland; Puberty; Thyroid Gla | 1995 |
Persistence of circadian oscillation while locomotor activity and plasma melatonin levels became aperiodic under prolonged continuous light in the rat.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Estrus; Eye Enucleation; Female; Melatonin; Motor Activity; Ph | 1996 |
Relationship between melatonin rhythms and visual loss in the blind.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Light; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Sleep | 1997 |
Relationship between melatonin rhythms and visual loss in the blind.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Light; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Sleep | 1997 |
Relationship between melatonin rhythms and visual loss in the blind.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Light; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Sleep | 1997 |
Relationship between melatonin rhythms and visual loss in the blind.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Light; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Sleep | 1997 |
Nonphotic entrainment of the human circadian pacemaker.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Blindness; Body Temperature; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Middle | 1998 |
Reduced cancer incidence among the blind.
Topics: Aged; Blindness; Breast Neoplasms; Cohort Studies; Female; Humans; Incidence; Male; Melatonin; Middl | 1998 |
Pineal rhythms are synchronized to light-dark cycles in congenitally anophthalmic mutant rats.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Darkness; Eye Enucleation; Lighting; Male; Melatonin; Motor Ac | 1999 |
Sleep and activity rhythms are related to circadian phase in the blind.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Fourier Analysis; Homeostasis; Humans; Male; Melat | 1999 |
Correlation between urinary cortisol and 6-sulphatoxymelatonin rhythms in field studies of blind subjects.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Biomarkers; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Male; Melatoni | 1999 |
Melatonin counteracts the stimulatory effects of blinding or exposure to red light on reproduction in the skipper frog Rana cyanophlyctis.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Darkness; Female; Kinetics; Melatonin; Organ Size; Ovarian Follicle; Ovary; Ovid | 2000 |
Melatonin, circadian rhythms, and sleep.
Topics: Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Dyssomnias; Humans; Melatonin; Sleep | 2000 |
Effects of aging on the intrinsic circadian period of totally blind humans.
Topics: Adult; Aging; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Regression Analysis | 2001 |
Absence of an increase in the duration of the circadian melatonin secretory episode in totally blind human subjects.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Female; Humans; Male; Melat | 2001 |
Capturing the circadian rhythms of free-running blind people with 0.5 mg melatonin.
Topics: Adult; Biological Clocks; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Admini | 2001 |
Capturing the circadian rhythms of free-running blind people with 0.5 mg melatonin.
Topics: Adult; Biological Clocks; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Admini | 2001 |
Capturing the circadian rhythms of free-running blind people with 0.5 mg melatonin.
Topics: Adult; Biological Clocks; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Admini | 2001 |
Capturing the circadian rhythms of free-running blind people with 0.5 mg melatonin.
Topics: Adult; Biological Clocks; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Admini | 2001 |
Low, but not high, doses of melatonin entrained a free-running blind person with a long circadian period.
Topics: Administration, Oral; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Humans; Male; M | 2002 |
[Melatonin treatment of a blind child with serious sleep disorders].
Topics: Blindness; Child, Preschool; Chronic Disease; Developmental Disabilities; Humans; Male; Melatonin; P | 2002 |
Blinding and pinealectomy in male hamsters: Effects of pineal indoles and P-chlorophenylalanine on testes, seminal vesicles, pituitary and adrenal glands.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Fenclonine; Hydralazine; Indoles; Male; Melatonin; Organ Size; Pinea | 1977 |
Effects of the pineal and melatonin on thyroid activity of male golden hamsters.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Castration; Cricetinae; Male; Melatonin; Mesocricetus; Ocular Physiological Phen | 1979 |
Hyperactivity in the blind-anosmic female rat: role of the pineal gland.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Female; Humans; Hyperkinesis; Melatonin; Motor Activity; Olfaction Disorders; Pi | 1977 |
Effects of neutralization of circulating melatonin and N-acetylserotonin on plasma prolactin levels.
Topics: Animals; Antigens; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Environment; Lighting; Male; Melatonin; Pineal Gland | 1977 |
A basic experimental approach in perspective of pineal and melatonin involvement in photoperiod-induced alteration of spermatogenesis in toad (Bufo melanostictus).
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Bufonidae; Darkness; Leydig Cells; Light; Male; Melatonin; Pineal Gland; Spermat | 1978 |
Differences in biological function between the blind and the sighted.
Topics: Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Melatonin; Pineal Gland | 1978 |
Some aspects of colour-change mechanism in the Indian fresh-water siluroid, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch).
Topics: Adaptation, Physiological; Animals; Blindness; Female; Fishes; Laminectomy; Light; Male; Melanophore | 1978 |
Pineal function in hamsters bearing melatonin antibodies.
Topics: Animals; Antigen-Antibody Reactions; Blindness; Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone; Guinea Pigs; Hypotha | 1976 |
Endocrine effects of the pineal gland and neutralization of circulating melatonin and N-acetylserotonin.
Topics: Adrenal Cortex; Adrenal Glands; Animals; Blindness; Corticosterone; Darkness; Growth; Male; Melatoni | 1977 |
Free thyroxin index in normal, melatonin-treated and blind hamsters.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Female; Male; Melatonin; Pineal Gland; Sex Factors; Thyroid Gland; T | 1977 |
Antigonadal effects of blinding in the presence of antibody against circulating melatonin.
Topics: Animals; Antigen-Antibody Reactions; Blindness; Body Weight; Genitalia, Male; Luteinizing Hormone; M | 1977 |
Influence of melatonin, constant light, or blinding on reproductive system of gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus).
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Body Weight; Female; Genitalia; Gerbillinae; Light; Litter Size; Male; Melatonin | 1976 |
Melatonin-pineal relationships in female golden hamsters.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Body Weight; Cricetinae; Dogs; Female; Luteinizing Hormone; Melatonin; Organ Siz | 1975 |
A study of indoles which inhibit pineal antigonadotrophic activity in male hamsters.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Indoles; Luteinizing Hormone; Male; Melatonin; Pineal Gland; Pituita | 1975 |
A counter antigonadotrophic effect of melatonin in male rats.
Topics: Adrenal Glands; Animals; Blindness; Body Weight; Gonadotropins, Pituitary; Growth; Luteinizing Hormo | 1975 |
Studies on the minimal dosage of melatonin required to inhibit pineal antigonadotrophic activity in male golden hamsters.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Genitalia, Male; Gonadotropins; Luteinizing Hormone; Male; Melatonin | 1975 |
Melatonin inhibition of pineal antigonadotrophic activity in male rats.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Body Weight; Genitalia, Male; Male; Melatonin; Organ Size; Pineal Gland; Pituita | 1975 |
Regulation of pineal rhythms in chickens: effects of blinding, constant light, constant dark, and superior cervical ganglionectomy.
Topics: Acetylserotonin O-Methyltransferase; Acetyltransferases; Animals; Blindness; Chickens; Circadian Rhy | 1975 |
[Interrelationship of the pineal body with the hypothalamo-hypophyseal complex. II. The effect of melatonin on the incorporation of H3-leucine in the anterior and medial hypothalamic nuclei of pinealectomized blinded rats].
Topics: Animals; Autoradiography; Blindness; Female; Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System; Hypothalamus; Hypothala | 1976 |
Melatonin and maternal factors shift the phase of NAT activity rhythm in the pineal gland in rat pups.
Topics: Animals; Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase; Blindness; Female; Maternal Behavior; Melatonin; Periodicity | 1992 |
The importance of timing in melatonin administration in a blind man.
Topics: Adolescent; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Drug Administration Schedule; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Slee | 1992 |
Sleep propensity free-runs with the temperature, melatonin and cortisol rhythms in a totally blind person.
Topics: Adult; Blindness; Body Temperature; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Male; Melatonin; Sleep | 1992 |
Circadian rhythm abnormalities in totally blind people: incidence and clinical significance.
Topics: Biological Clocks; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Melatonin; Sleep | 1992 |
Free-running melatonin, sleep propensity, cortisol and temperature rhythms in a totally blind person.
Topics: Adult; Arousal; Blindness; Body Temperature Regulation; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Ma | 1992 |
Feedback in the rabbit's central circadian system, revealed by the changes in its free-running food intake pattern induced by blinding, cervical sympathectomy, pinealectomy, and melatonin administration.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Feedback; Feeding Behavior; Female; Ganglia, Sympathetic; Gang | 1991 |
Circadian rhythms in 6-sulphatoxymelatonin and nocturnal sleep in blind children.
Topics: Adolescent; Blindness; Child; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Sleep | 1991 |
The role of arginine-vasopressin for pineal melatonin synthesis in the rat: involvement of vasopressinergic receptors.
Topics: Animals; Arginine Vasopressin; Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase; Blindness; Deamino Arginine Vasopressi | 1991 |
Correction of non-24-hour sleep/wake cycle by melatonin in a blind retarded boy.
Topics: Blindness; Child; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Intellectual Disability; Male; Melatonin | 1991 |
Patterns of pineal melatonin secretion in rabbits: diurnal variation of basal and pulsatile release.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Darkness; Female; Light; Male; Melatonin; Pineal Gland; Rabbit | 1990 |
Melatonin stabilises sleep onset time in a blind man without entrainment of cortisol or temperature rhythms.
Topics: Blindness; Body Temperature Regulation; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Male; Melatonin; M | 1990 |
Inherited changes in concentrations of retinal and serum melatonin in the chicken.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Body Weight; Chickens; Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; Heterozygote; Homoz | 1989 |
Role of the pineal gland in the activity of nervous structures involved in sexual processes of the male rat.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Brain; Male; Melatonin; Orchiectomy; Organ Specificity; Oxygen Consumption; Pine | 1987 |
Synchronisation of a disturbed sleep-wake cycle in a blind man by melatonin treatment.
Topics: Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Humans; Male; Melatonin; Middle Aged; Sleep Wake Disorders | 1988 |
Melatonin inhibits metabolic activity in the rat suprachiasmatic nuclei.
Topics: Animals; Autoradiography; Biological Transport; Blindness; Carbon Radioisotopes; Deoxy Sugars; Deoxy | 1987 |
The effect of melatonin administration and short exposures to cold on body temperature of the blind subterranean mole rat (Rodentia, Spalax ehrenberghi, Nehring).
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Body Temperature; Body Temperature Regulation; Body Weight; Cold Temperature; Me | 1986 |
Effects of pinealectomy and melatonin administration on thyroid follicles of blind Syrian hamsters.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Male; Melatonin; Mesocricetus; Pineal Gland; Thyroid Gland; Thyrotro | 1985 |
Pineal gland: evidence for an influence on ethanol preference in male Syrian hamsters.
Topics: Alcohol Drinking; Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Darkness; Drinking; Ganglia, Autonomic; Light; Mal | 1974 |
Retinal and pineal hydroxyindole-O-methyl transferases in the rat: changes following cervical sympathectomy, pinealectomy or blinding.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Carbon Isotopes; Cervical Plexus; Circadian Rhythm; Male; Melatonin; Methyltrans | 1973 |
Effect of the pineal gland on alcohol consumption by congenitally blind male rats.
Topics: Alcohol Drinking; Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Drinking; Drinking Behavior; Ethanol; Male; | 1973 |
Relationship between the pineal gland, other endocrine glands and reproductive organs of single and parabiosed golden hamsters.
Topics: Adrenal Glands; Animals; Blindness; Body Weight; Castration; Cricetinae; Female; Iodine Radioisotope | 1973 |
The effects of light and sympathetic innervation to the head on nidation in mink.
Topics: Animals; Blepharoptosis; Blindness; Embryo Implantation; Female; Ganglia, Autonomic; Genetic Linkage | 1974 |
Pineal N-acetyltransferase activity in blinded and anosmic male rats.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Carbon Isotopes; Circadian Rhythm; Male; Melatonin; Olfaction Disorders; Pineal | 1971 |
A melatonin rhythm persists in rat pineals in darkness.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Darkness; Locomotion; Male; Melatonin; Pineal Gland; Rats | 1971 |
Effect of blinding on the excretion of a gonadotropin-inhibiting substance in male rats.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Chorionic Gonadotropin; Female; Gonadotropins; Gonadotropins, Equine; Male; Mela | 1971 |
Effect of biogenic amines on the endocrine axis and esterase activity of hamster testes.
Topics: Adrenal Glands; Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Esterases; Light; Male; Melatonin; Microscopy, Elect | 1970 |
Testicular steroidogeneis in vitro in the rat in response to blinding, pinealectomy and to the addition of melatonin.
Topics: Androgens; Androstanes; Animals; Blindness; Cholesterol; Depression, Chemical; Fructose; In Vitro Te | 1971 |
Stimulation of hydroxyindole-o-methyl transferase activity in hamster pineal glands by blinding or continuous darkness.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Cricetinae; Darkness; Light; Male; Melatonin; Organ Size; Pineal Gland; Radiatio | 1968 |
Hydroxyindole-O-methyl-transferase activity: effect of sympathetic nerve stimulation.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Electric Stimulation; Ganglia, Autonomic; Light; Male; Melaton | 1968 |
Central control of the pineal gland: visual pathways.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Darkness; Environment; Estrus; Female; Light; Melatonin; Mesencephalon; Norepine | 1968 |
The control of circadian pigment changes in the pencil fish: a proposed role for melatonin.
Topics: Animals; Blindness; Circadian Rhythm; Darkness; Fishes; Light; Melatonin; Pigmentation | 1968 |