Editorial: Decoding the Fetal Circadian System and Its Role in Adult Sickness and Health: Melatonin, a Dark History

Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2020 Jul 16:11:380. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00380. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Claudia Torres-Farfan^{1

2}, Jose Cipolla Neto³, Erik D Herzog⁴

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Developmental Chronobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
² Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios del Sistema Nervioso (CISNe), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
³ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: DOHaD (developmental origins of health and disease); circadian rhythms; epigenetic; melatonin; pregnancy.

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Circadian Rhythm*
Female
Fetal Development*
Humans
Melatonin / physiology*
Pregnancy

Substances

Melatonin