货品编号: sigma.M5250-1g
品牌: sigma
品名: 褪黑素
规格: 1g
Application
Melatonin has been administered to experimental animals for following studies:
• To determine if long-term melatonin administration is able to induce reproductive changes and how melatonin
exerts its protective action related to lipid oxidation and antioxidant activities in the rat ovary during ovulation.
• To determine the effect of melatonin on endoplasmic reticulum stress and sirtuin 1 expression in neuronal cells
of newborn rats after hypoxia–ischemia.
• To study the effect of melatonin on chronic stress-induced gut dysfunction in stressed mice.[4]
Biochem/physiol Actions
Hormone; mediates photoperiodicity in mammals; inhibits cerebellar nitric oxide synthetase; peroxynitrite scavenger.
Melatonin has complex effects on apoptotic pathways, inhibiting apoptosis in immune cells and neurons but enhancing
apoptotic cell death of cancer cells. Inhibits proliferation/metastasis of breast cancer cells by inhibiting estrogen receptor
action.
Melatonin is characterized with variety of properties such as antioxidant, autocoid, paracoid and hormonal properties, as
well as anti- inflammatory and anti-apoptotic properties. Melatonin is implicated in the regulation of seasonal reproduction,
energy metabolism and thermoregulation in mammals.
Melatonin plays a vital role in the lessening of neonatal hypoxia–ischemia (HI) induced endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress
and conserves sirtuin 1( SIRT-1) expression.
Features and Benefits
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General description
Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is synthesized from an essential amino acid tryptophan. It is a pineal gland neurohormone.
Direct, non-receptor-mediated free radical scavenging activity induced by melatonin, makes it unique from other classic hormones.
Melatonin is expressed in variety of organisms such as bacteria, algae, fungi