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Novel activity of melatonin. Its chemotactic effect on retinal pigment epithelial cells
1Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Japan.
Ophthalmic Research
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
Melatonin (100 nM-100 microM) showed a chemotactic action on cultured chick retinal pigment epithelial cells. This effect was equivalent to that of N-formyl methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine. Other methoxyindole derivatives had no or less chemotactic effects than melatonin.