Abstract：
:We examined the association between 6-sulphatoxymelatonin (6-SMT) excretion and sleep in 68 volunteers 60-79 years of age who complained of insomnia or depression. An Actillume wrist monitor was worn for 5-7 consecutive days and nights in home-living conditions. Activity was used to estimate total sleep time (TST) and wake after sleep onset (WASO). Throughout two 24 hr periods, urine was collected approximately every 2 hr during the day and after any voidings during the sleep period. During the next week, subjects spent 5 nights and 4 days in the laboratory. Sleep was measured and scored with standard polysomnographic techniques. Urine was collected, as for home recording, on days 1 and 4. Urinary concentrations of 6-SMT were assayed. Cosine-fitting of urine data across both days at home and both laboratory collections established the mesors and amplitudes of 24 hr 6-SMT excretion rhythms, but neither was significantly correlated with sleep. Mean and peak 6-SMT excretion during the sleep period was also determined. Significant correlations were found between mean 6-SMT during the laboratory sleep period and TST and WASO. However, these associations were not independent of circadian timing: sleep was better when sleep occurred near the circadian acrophase of 6-SMT excretion. These data indicate that low melatonin production may not be an important factor in insomnia among the elderly.
journal_name
J Pineal Resjournal_title
Journal of pineal researchauthors
Youngstedt SD,Kripke DF,Elliott JAdoi
10.1111/j.1600-079x.1998.tb00526.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-04-01 00:00:00pages
142-5issue
3eissn
0742-3098issn
1600-079Xjournal_volume
24pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of melatonin on kainic acid (KA)-induced neurodegeneration in the hippocampus were evaluated in vivo. It has been suggested that the pineal secretory product, melatonin, protects neurons in vitro from excitotoxicity mediated by kainate-sensitive glutamate receptors, and fr...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1034/j.1600-079x.2003.00010.x
更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Our objective was to suppress the daily surge of melatonin in serum of prepubertal dairy heifers by manipulating intensity of light (Experiment 1) and duration of exposure to light (Experiment 2). Heifers in Experiment 1 were exposed to either 12 hr of darkness (000 lux, control), or 400, 800, or 1,200 lux of light du...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1992.tb00046.x
更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The frequency of mitoses of adrenaline (A) cells and noradrenaline (N) cells in the adrenal medulla of nonoperated (NO), sham-operated (SPX), and pinealectomized (PX) male, 53-day-old Holtzman rats (n = 133) was investigated by means of light microscopy. Animals were killed at eight time points during a standardized 2...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1990.tb00803.x
更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An interaction between melatonin and adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) seems to occur in humans and both hormones respond to beta-adrenergic stimulation. As in lower animal species, human pineal gland also contains alpha2-adrenergic receptors as does the hypothalamus-pituitary axis. In this study the response of the pineal g...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1034/j.1600-079x.2000.290107.x
更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Chronic hyperhomocysteinemia is a risk factor in cardiovascular diseases and neurodegeneration. Among the putative mechanisms of homocysteine-induced neurotoxicity, an increased production of reactive oxygen species has been suggested. However, elevated homocysteine levels might disturb neurogenesis during brain devel...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079X.2007.00506.x
更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/jpi.12662
更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.2010.00755.x
更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079X.2008.00600.x
更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1998.tb00545.x
更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/jpi.12636
更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Maternal hyperthermia induces early embryonic death via increased oxidative stress to the embryo. In this study, we examined whether melatonin administered to heat-stressed pregnant mice would reduce hyperthermia-induced embryonic death. Mice were heat stressed (12 hr at 35 degrees C, 60% relative humidity) on the day...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079X.2005.00260.x
更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Lethal oxidative stress was investigated in the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra by measuring the dying-peak of bioluminescence during circadian phases of low physiological light emission, low bioluminescence capacity, and low sensitivity to stimulatory agents. Measurements were carried out in constant darkness after...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1997.tb00353.x
更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Rabbitfish are a restricted lunar-synchronized spawner that spawns around a species-specific lunar phase. It is not known how the fish perceive changes in cues from the moon. One possible explanation is that rabbitfish utilize changes in moonlight intensity to establish synchrony. The purpose of the present study was ...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079X.2005.00306.x
更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Oxidative stress is involved in ischemia-reperfusion injury and allograft rejection after transplantation. We studied two well-known antioxidants, melatonin and ascorbic acid (AA), in relation to the survival of a pancreas transplantation model without immunosuppression. Forty-eight Landrace pigs were divided into thr...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079X.2011.00908.x
更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Melatonin injected in a single intraperitoneal dose of 100 micrograms/100 g b.w. to euhydrated rats resulted in a decrease of neurohypophysial oxytocin content but the hypothalamic oxytocin storage as well as the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial storage of vasopressin were not changed. Following 8 d of once-daily melatoni...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1986.tb00743.x
更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:N-acetylserotonin methyltransferase (ASMT), the last enzyme in the synthesis of melatonin, catalyzes N-acetylserotonin into melatonin. For the first time, we cloned ASMT from rice through the analysis of recombinant Escherichia coli harboring putative rice O-methyltransferase (OMT) cDNAs. In total, 18 full-length cDNA...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079X.2010.00841.x
更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The serum levels of the pineal hormone melatonin were determined by radioimmunoassay (RIA) in 4-h intervals throughout a 24-h period in elderly men with different types of prostate tumors: benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH, n = 13), incidental carcinoma (PCi, n = 5), and nonmetastasizing carcinoma (PC, n = 9), as well...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1985.tb00633.x
更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Dim light exposure of the mother during pregnancy has been proposed as one of the environmental factors that affect the fetal brain development in schizophrenia. Melatonin circulating levels are regulated by the environmental light/dark cycle. This hormone stimulates neuronal differentiation in the adult brain. Howeve...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/jpi.12421
更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Exposure of rats to light during darkness or blockade of the pineal beta-adrenoceptor in stimulated pineal glands results in a rapid fall in pineal N-acetyltransferase (NAT) activity. Maintenance of a high level of NAT activity requires continuous stimulation of the pineal beta-adrenoceptors. It is not known what fact...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1992.tb00026.x
更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Light and electron microscopic demonstrations for acid phosphatase (AcPase) activity in the chicken pineal gland were studied with special reference to the changes induced by the light-dark cycle. AcPase-positive lysosomes and Golgi cisternae and vesicles located in the pinealocyte in the light period are well develop...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1989.tb00407.x
更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Melatonin is a highly effective treatment in different animal models of excitotoxicity or ischemia/reperfusion injury. Due to a lack of patentability, commercial sponsors are not interested in funding clinical evaluations of melatonin. Investigators may initiate small-scale clinical evaluation, and intravenous (i.v.) ...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079X.2006.00372.x
更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The distribution of nerve fibers immunoreactive (IR) to catecholamine-synthesizing enzymes, tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), dopamine-beta-hydroxylase (D beta H), and phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PNMT) as well as neuropeptide Y (NPY), in the pineal gland of adult sows was investigated by the use of double-labelin...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1994.tb00109.x
更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cardiac tissue loss is one of the most important factors leading to the unsatisfactory recovery even after treatment of ischemic heart disease. Melatonin, a circadian molecule with marked antioxidant properties, protects against ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury. In particular, the myocardial protection of melatonin is...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1111/jpi.12175
更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Melatonin was tested in an ongoing attempt to find the endogenous antagonists of quinolinic acid, an endogenous convulsant. Among a great number of metabolites that have been tried before, only a few were found (cerulein and quinaldic acid in mice and kynurenic acid in rats). In SHR (bred from Swiss) male mice, intrac...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1998.tb00535.x
更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The role played by postsynaptic alpha-adrenergic receptors in the stimulation of pineal melatonin production was investigated in the Syrian hamster. The studies were conducted using organ cultured pineal glands collected from both anatomically intact and superior cervical ganglionectomized hamsters. Results obtained i...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1989.tb00437.x
更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The rod outer segment (ROSg) membranes are essentially lipoprotein complexes. Rhodopsin, the major integral protein of ROSg, is surrounded by phospholipids highly enriched in docosahexaenoic acid (22:6 n3). This fluid environment plays an important role for conformational changes after photo-activation. Thus, ROSg mem...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079X.2006.00352.x
更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Melatonin is a powerful antioxidant and free radical scavenger. A large body of in vivo and in vitro evidence shows that melatonin effectively inhibits membrane lipid peroxidation; this damage was based on the measurement of malondialdehyde and/or 4-hydroxynonenal levels. In the current study, for the first time using...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079X.2005.00311.x
更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Urotoxicity is one of the major problems associated with cyclophosphamide (CP) chemotherapy in cancer patients. Melatonin is a potent antioxidant and reduces CP-induced urotoxicity. However, the molecular mechanisms of protection offered by melatonin are not yet clear. The present study investigated the role of nuclea...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079X.2010.00756.x
更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) exerts its toxic effects by the generation of free radicals. In this study we investigated whether melatonin, a potent free radical scavenger, could prevent the deleterious effects of CCl4. Liver homogenates and liver microsomes were incubated with CCl4 in the presence of melatonin and lipi...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1600-079x.1995.tb00164.x
更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the present paper, binding of melatonin to purified cell nuclei from harderian glands of male and female hamsters was assessed. Binding of 125I-melatonin to cell nuclei fulfills the criteria for binding to a receptor site. Binding kinetics exhibit properties such as dependence on time and temperature as well as rev...
journal_title：Journal of pineal research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1034/j.1600-079x.2003.00029.x
更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00
