There is growing interest in the field of melatonin research regarding its neurobiological mechanisms as well as its repercussions in clinical practice. Melatonin: Therapeutic Value and Neuroprotection explores melatonin's neuroprotective effects and discusses the therapeutic potential of melatonin and melatonin agonists in treating neurodegenerati

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Preface
Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1: Melatonin Production and Bioavailability
Chapter 2: Deviations of Melatonin Levels and Signaling in Aging and Diseases : Options and Limits of Treatment
Chapter 3: Pineal Gland Volume and Melatonin
Chapter 4: Melatonin’s Beneficial Effects in Metabolic Syndrome with Therapeutic Applications
Chapter 5: Therapeutic Applications of Melatonin in Pediatrics
Chapter 6: Neuroprotective Effect of Melatonin on Perinatal Hypoxia–Ischemia
Chapter 7: Melatonin as a Therapeutic Agent for Sepsis
Chapter 8: Melatonin’s Cardioprotective Role
Chapter 9: Melatonin : Therapeutic Value and Neuroprotection in Stroke
Chapter 10: Melatonin’s Antiapoptotic Activity in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Chapter 11: MT2 Melatonin Receptors : Their Role in Sleep and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Chapter 12: Melatonin : Its Hepatoprotective Actions and the Role of Melatonin Receptors
Chapter 13: Melatonin Signaling in the Control of Plasmodium Development and Replication
Chapter 14: Melatonin : Regulator of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis
Chapter 15: Comparison of Neuroprotective Effect of Melatonin in the Nigrostriatal and Mesolimbic Dopaminergic Systems of the Zitter Rat
Chapter 16: Melatonin’s Neuroprotective Role in Parkinson’s Disease
Chapter 17: Neuroprotective Role of Melatonin in Glaucoma
Chapter 18: Melatonin Receptors and Their Preventive Role in Carcinogenesis
Chapter 19: Enhancement of Antitumor Activity of Ursolic Acid by Melatonin in Colon Cancer Cells
Chapter 20: Synthetic Melatonin Receptor Ligands
Chapter 21: Evaluation of Synthetic Melatonin Analog Antioxidant Compounds
Chapter 22: Melatonin’s Analogues in Glaucoma
Chapter 23: Melatonergic Drugs as Therapeutic Agents for Insomnia and Depressive Disorders
Chapter 24: Agomelatine : A Neuroprotective Agent with Clinical Utility beyond Depression and Anxiety
Chapter 25: Melatonergic Antidepressant Agomelatine in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders
Chapter 26: Effects of Melatonin and Melatonergic Drugs in Transgenic Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease
Chapter 27: Melatonin’s Mitochondrial Protective Role in Alzheimer’s Mice : Role of Melatonin Receptors
Chapter 28: Melatonin and Its Therapeutic Implications in Injuries of the Developing Brain and Retina
Chapter 29: Melatonin’s Protection against Human Prion-Mediated Neurotoxicity
Chapter 30: Melatonin’s Protection against Methamphetamine Toxicity in Neuroblastoma Cells
Chapter 31: Melatonin’s Beneficial Effects on Dopaminergic Neurons in the Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease
Chapter 32: Antiepileptic Effects of Melatonin
Chapter 33: Analgesic Effects of Melatonin
Chapter 34: Effects of Melatonin on the Proliferative and Differentiative Activity of Neural Stem Cells
Chapter 35: Role of Melatonin in Collagen Synthesis
Chapter 36: Melatonin Use in Peripheral Nerve Injury
Chapter 37: Neuroprotective Role of Melatonin and Its Agonists : Neuroprotective Role of Melatonin against Dexamethasone-Induced Neurotoxicity
Chapter 38: Does Melatonin Have a Protective Role against Side Effects of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs?
Chapter 39: Melatonin : Pharmacological Aspects and Clinical Trends
Chapter 40: Protective Effects of Melatonin in Radiation-Induced Nephrotoxicity
Chapter 41: Melatonin and Familial Mediterranean Fever
Chapter 42: Effects of Melatonin on Osteoblastic and Osteoclastic Activities of Bone Tissue
Chapter 43: Phyto-Melatonin : A Novel Therapeutic Aspect of Melatonin in Nature’s Way
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