(精编)NHS临床指南 Melatonin, sleep and EEG教学课件.ppt

Melatonin, sleep and EEG;MELATONIN ;What is melatonin?;Light exposure tends to inhibit the pineal MT secretion while darkness promotes it. The SCN is a critically important small paired structure containing about 10000 scattered neurons with a circadian rhythm in vivo and in vitro. It gives rhythmicity to MT secretion, sleep, temperature, and cortisol, but it also has such widespread physiological circadian actions through MT that its main function appears to be the changing of the processes in the body from daytime to nighttime in a well coordinated manner. MT feeds back to the SCN and can