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Preferred term

melatonin  

Note

  • Melatonin is produced by the pineal gland only during darkness; the duration of its secretion is the main signal which mediates the stimulatory and suppressive effects of the photoperiod on reproductive activity. (Source : INRA)

Subject

  • Endocrinology and metabolism
  • Reproduction biology

preferred label (skos-xl)

In other languages

  • Information

    lexinfo:gender: feminine

    lexinfo:partOfSpeech: noun

    mélatonine

    French

URI

https://opendata.inra.fr/BRMH/139

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