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| Title |
Melatonin the "light of night" in human biology and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
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| Published in |
Scoliosis, December 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1748-7161-2-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Theodoros B Grivas, Olga D Savvidou |
| Abstract |
Melatonin "the light of night" is secreted from the pineal gland principally at night. The hormone is involved in sleep regulation, as well as in a number of other cyclical bodily activities and circadian rhythm in humans. Melatonin is exclusively involved in signalling the 'time of day' and 'time of year' (hence considered to help both clock and calendar functions) to all tissues and is thus considered to be the body's chronological pacemaker or 'Zeitgeber'. The last decades melatonin has been used as a therapeutic chemical in a large spectrum of diseases, mainly in sleep disturbances and tumours and may play a role in the biologic regulation of mood, affective disorders, cardiovascular system, reproduction and aging. There are few papers regarding melatonin and its role in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). Melatonin may play a role in the pathogenesis of scoliosis (neuroendocrine hypothesis) but at present, the data available cannot clearly support this hypothesis. Uncertainties and doubts still surround the role of melatonin in human physiology and pathophysiology and future research is needed. |
Twitter Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| Australia | 1 | 13% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 13% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 13% |
| Japan | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 2 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 179 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 174 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 30 | 17% |
| Researcher | 19 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 11 | 6% |
| Other | 40 | 22% |
| Unknown | 49 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 40 | 22% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 20 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 16 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 6% |
| Psychology | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 30 | 17% |
| Unknown | 55 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 140. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 August 2023.
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