[Immunohistochemical demonstration of the localization of melatonin and N-acetylserotonin in enterochromaffin cells].
Employing the immunohistochemical method with the use of specific antisera to melatonin and to N-acetylserotonine the authors showed the presence of these substances in the enterochromaffine cells of the gastrointestinal. It is emphasized that in the organism there exists a group of melatonin-producing cells whose principal link is served by the enterochromatoffine cells playing an important role in the maintenance of homeostasis due to their function--that of melatonin production.
D000818:Animals; D002838:Chromaffin System / Q000378:metabolism*; D004759:Enterochromaffin Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D008550:Melatonin / Q000378:metabolism*; D011817:Rabbits; D012701:Serotonin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism
D012701:Serotonin; D008550:Melatonin
Immunogistokhimicheskoe vyiavlenie lokalizatsii melatonina i N-atsetilserotonina v énterokhromaffinnykh kletkakh