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MELANOPSIN

Gene

1 paper1 finding

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

Includes the processes named after it and trials of drugs aimed at it.

  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche
  • Humans1

Effects

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Melatonin suppression

mediatesin humans1

1 study

  1. MELANOPSIN mediates melatonin suppression in humans.

    “Conversely, in older participants, spectral light-driven melatonin suppression was best explained by a more complex model combining melanopsin, S-cone, and M-cone functions”

    Human trial

    Melatonin suppression by light involves different retinal photoreceptors in young and older adults

    Journal of pineal research1 Jan 2024

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