Melatonin membrane receptors in peripheral tissues: distribution and functions.

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Published in Mol Cell Endocrinol on January 08, 2012

Authors

Radomir M Slominski1, Russel J Reiter, Natalia Schlabritz-Loutsevitch, Rennolds S Ostrom, Andrzej T Slominski

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pharmacology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.

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