Daily melatonin injections inhibit short-day-induced testicular regression in hamsters

Fred W Turek; P. Pappas

doi:10.1007/BF01960141

Daily melatonin injections inhibit short-day-induced testicular regression in hamsters

Fred W Turek^*, P. Pappas

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Daily injections of melatonin were found to retard testicular regression in hamsters exposed to LD 10:14, if the injections occurred in the morning (i.e., 0.5 h after lights on), but not if they occurred in the afternoon (i.e., 6 h after lights on). These results indicate that appropriately timed injections of melatonin can at least partially block the inhibitory effects of short days on gonadal activity in the photoperiodic hamster.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1426-1427
Number of pages	2
Journal	Experientia
Volume	36
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01960141
State	Published - Dec 1 1980

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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)

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