[Melatonin in the international literature of the last twenty years].

Recenti Prog Med

Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Opera di Padre Pio da Pietrelcina, S. Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia.

Published: April 2003

Melatonin was not considered for a long time in medical culture and scientific research for the difficulties encountered in study protocols and for the obscure relevance in clinical practice. Today the pineal hormone has reached a great popularity, may be not strictly corresponding to the important role played in the regulation of many system function and the commercial diffusion has become extremely wide in some countries.

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