Russel J.Reiter是美国圣安东尼奥得克萨斯健康中心大学神经内分泌学教授,是《松果腺研究期刊》创办人兼编辑。他对褪黑激素研究的成果颇多,著有《melatonin》。该书由台湾的郭素菁译成中文。书名《褪黑激素》。笔者摘引了一部分书中引用的研究报告内容和数据,并参考了《Nutrition—Concepts and Controversies》、《Nutrition—in Exercise and sport》及《食品成分表》,编写成这篇科普文章。 在我们大脑的中心,有一个玉米粒大小的腺体叫松果腺。1917年,有一个研究报告说:把牛的松果腺研碎,撒进养着小蝌蚪的水槽中,30分钟以内,蝌蚪皮肤 Russel J.Reiter is professor of neuroendocrinology at the University of Texas Health Center San Antonio, San Antonio, and founder and editor of The Journal of Pineal Gland Research. His research on melatonin has many achievements, with “melatonin”. The book is translated into Chinese by Guo Sujing of Taiwan. Title of the book “melatonin.” The author quotes part of the contents of the study cited in the book and the data, and with reference to the “Nutrition-Concepts and Controversies”, “Nutrition-in Exercise and sport” and “food composition table”, compiled into this science article. In the center of our brain, there is a corn-sized gland known as the pineal gland. In 1917, a study reported that: crushed the pineal gland of a cow and sprinkled it into the trough of a small tadpole within 30 minutes, tadpole skin