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Almost every physiological phenomena show periodic fluctuation during the 24 hour of the day (Moore-Ede et a1.,1982; Cipolla-Neto et a1.,1988). Some of these oscillations - the circadian rhythms-are endogenously generated and externally synchronized to environmental cyclic agents as photoperiod and food disponibility (Aschoff, 1981; Cipolla-Neto et al.,1987). Diurnal variation in the activity of several enzymatic systems was demonstrated especially in the brain, pineal gland and liver (Klein,1981; North et al.,1981;Feurs et a1.,1986; Reiter,1988).
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Cipolla-Neto, J., Markus, R.P., Abdalla, D.S.P., Campa, A. (1991). Temporal Profile of Superoxide Dismutase Activity in the Pineal Gland and the Liver of Rats. In: Fraschini, F., Reiter, R.J. (eds) Role of Melatonin and Pineal Peptides in Neuroimmunomodulation. NATO ASI Series, vol 204. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3756-4_19
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