Immunohistochemical demonstration of the localization of melatonin and N-acetylserotonin in enterochromaffin cells
Raikhlin, N.T.; Kvetnoĭ, I.M.; Kadagidze, Z.G.; Sokolov, A.V.
Biulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny 82(11): 1400-1401
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0365-9615 PMID: 797405 Document Number: 106071
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.