ReviewPharmaceutics2021
Molecular Mechanisms of Melatonin-Mediated Cell Protection and Signaling in Health and Disease.
Review in Pharmaceutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 99 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Effect of Melatonin Administration on Mitochondrial Activity and Oxidative Stress Markers in Patients with Parkinson's Disease.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2021Trial
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- Melatonin receptor signaling in human pathologies: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic targets.Function (Oxford, England) · 2026Review
- Inflammation Disrupts Ganglioside Expression during Early Embryonic Development in Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) Mice: Protective Effects of Melatonin.Development & reproduction · 2026Review
- Unveiling melatonin's multifaceted actions against ferroptotic neurotoxicity in ischemic stroke.Toxicology reports · 2026Review
- Gut-brain axis in health and brain disease.Chinese medical journal · 2026Review
- Melatonin promotes skeletal muscle mitochondria-associated endoplasmic reticulum membrane contacts and restores organellar membrane integrity and phospholipid composition in Zücker diabetic fatty rats of both sexes.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026Article
- The melatonin-microbiome axis: a new frontier in gut health for the immunomodulatory, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.Inflammopharmacology · 2026Review
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- Melatonin promotes cytotoxicity while reducing cell motility and antioxidant defenses in ovarian cancer cell lines.Toxicology reports · 2025Article
- Redox Signaling Disruption and Antioxidants in Toxicology: From Precision Therapy to Potential Hazards.Cell biochemistry and biophysics · 2025Review
- Review
- Melatonin suppresses cancer cell proliferation, DNA repair and expression of the oncogene TRIP13.Cell death discovery · 2025Article
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- Melatonin-Mediated Nrf2 Activation as a Potential Therapeutic Strategy in Mutation-Driven Neurodegenerative Diseases.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Physiological Conditions, Bioactive Ingredients, and Drugs Stimulating Non-Shivering Thermogenesis as a Promising Treatment Against Diabesity.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Selected Protective Mechanisms of Human Milk Against Intestinal Protozoal Infections in Infants.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- Therapeutic insights and molecular mechanism linking melatonin signaling and membranous nephropathy (Review).Biomedical reports · 2025Review
- Melatonin-A Powerful Antioxidant in Neurodegenerative Diseases.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Melatonin, an endogenously synthesized indolamine, is a powerful antioxidant exerting beneficial action in many pathological conditions. Melatonin protects from oxidative stress in ischemic/reperfusion injury, neurodegenerative diseases, and aging, decreases inflammation, modulates the immune system, inhibits proliferation, counteracts the Warburg effect, and promotes apoptosis in various cancer models. Melatonin stimulates antioxidant enzymes in the cells, protects mitochondrial membrane phospholipids, especially cardiolipin, from oxidation thus preserving integrity of the membranes, affects mitochondrial membrane potential, stimulates activity of respiratory chain enzymes, and decreases the opening of mitochondrial permeability transition pore and cytochrome
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