书目名称 | Ma Vie en Noir | 副标题 | Fifty Years with Mel | 编辑 | Daniel Pedro Cardinali | 视频video | | 概述 | Explores the history of pineal and melatonin, from the autobiographical perspective of a leading author in the field..Focuses on the personal experience and achievements of Dr. Daniel Cardinali..Discu | 丛书名称 | Springer Biographies | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | I wrote this book urged by the overwhelming desire that arises towards the end of life to recapitulate the past. My goal was to summarize my experience of practicing science at the end of the 20th and early 21st centuries in Argentina, a country located far away from the world’s leading scientific centers. In the book, I summarize the intricacies of the pineal gland (“the stone of madness”) as historical, mystical and medical entity and its entry in contemporary medicine with the description of melatonin. I also reflect on how being associated with an unexplored subject at the beginning of his scientific career impacts the life of a scientist throughout their entire life. Today we know that in humans pineal melatonin is released every day late in the evening, and there is evidence that it is the trigger for the sleep process. But the most exciting aspect of melatonin is that it is a substance that is present in all living creatures, from unicellular organisms to plants and higher mammals, a fact that evinces its importance for life. Further, the neuroprotective action of melatonin promises to be crucial for the control of neurodegenerative diseases we face as a pandemic in this cen | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | 关键词 | Melatonin; Pineal; Pineal gland; Sleep; Sleep/Wake Cycle; Chronobiology; Neuroprotection | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41679-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-82409-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-41679-3Series ISSN 2365-0613 Series E-ISSN 2365-0621 | issn_series | 2365-0613 | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 |
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