Physiological and pharmacological perspectives of melatonin

S Samanta - Archives of physiology and biochemistry, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The pineal gland is a interface between light-dark cycle and shows neuro-endocrine
functions. Melatonin is the primary hormone of pineal gland, secreted at night. The night …

[HTML][HTML] The morphological and functional characteristics of the pineal gland

BA Gheban, IA Rosca, M Crisan - Medicine and pharmacy reports, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Results We have reviewed physiological information of melatonin and DMT, anatomical,
histological and histopathological information on the pineal gland and its role in endocrine …

Thymus-pineal gland axis: revisiting its role in human life and ageing

R Rezzani, C Franco, R Hardeland… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
For years the thymus gland (TG) and the pineal gland (PG) have been subject of
increasingly in-depth studies, but only recently a link that can associate the activities of the …

Physiologic pineal region, choroid plexus, and dural calcifications in the first decade of life

MT Whitehead, C Oh, A Raju… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Calcifications of the pineal, habenula, choroid plexus, and
dura are often physiologic. In the modern CT era with thin-section images and multiplanar …

Age-related changes of the pineal gland in humans: a digital anatomo-histological morphometric study on autopsy cases with comparison to predigital-era studies

BA Gheban, HA Colosi, IA Gheban-Rosca, B Pop… - Medicina, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background and objectives: The pineal gland is a photoneuroendocrine organ in the midline
of the brain, responsible primarily for melatonin synthesis. It is composed mainly of …

Digital histological morphometry of the human pineal gland in a postmortem study, with endocrine and neurological clinical implications

BA Gheban, HA Colosi… - Anatomia, Histologia …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The pineal gland is a small‐sized, photo neuroendocrine organ in the midline of the brain
that synthesises and secretes melatonin and serotonin. Chords and islands of pinealocytes …

Lunasensor, infradian rhythms, telomeres, and the chronomere program of aging

A Olovnikov - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
According to the redusome hypothesis, the aging of an organism is determined by the
shortening of chronomeres (small perichromosomal linear DNA molecules). In this paper, a …

Growth patterns for acervuli in human pineal gland

J Kim, HW Kim, S Chang, JW Kim, JH Je, IJ Rhyu - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
Acervuli are calcified concretions in the pineal gland (PG). Particularly interesting are their
incidence and size, which are believed to affect neurological disorders and many …

The pinealocytes of the human pineal gland: a light and electron microscopic study

SM Al-Hussain - Folia morphologica, 2006 - journals.viamedica.pl
The pinealocytes of the pineal gland of children and adults were studied at both light and
electron microscopic levels. The pinealocytes were classified into light and dark …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of the human pineal gland 3D organization by X-ray phase contrast tomography

I Bukreeva, O Junemann, A Cedola, F Palermo… - Journal of structural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pineal gland (PG) is a part of the human brain epithalamus that plays an important role in
sleep, circadian rhythm, immunity, and reproduction. The calcium deposits and lesions in PG …