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The Role of Melatonin in the Pathogenesis of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

DOI

78

Citations

19

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1996

Year

Alan S. Hilibrand, Laurel C. Blakemore, Randall T. Loder, Mary Lou V. H. Greenfield, Frances A. Farley, Robert N. Hensinger, M. Hariharan
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Abstract

Although melatonin deficiency may cause scoliosis in the chicken, this study suggests that it is not a mechanism in the pathogenesis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in humans.

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