Melatonin
Melatonin
- Category
- hormone · Endogenous hormone / pharmaceutical
- Record
- specific compound · in current use
- Identifiers
- CAS 73-31-4 · C13H16N2O2
- Aliases
- 5-methoxy-N-acetyltryptamine, N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine
Endogenous pineal hormone and a pharmaceutical used for sleep. High MT1/MT2 activity is physiological. Developmental reproductive effects of long-term childhood use are not established in this seed.
Flags: pharmaceutical · endogenous
Phase-1 numbers are seed hypotheses. They are not curated consensus, not a toxicity total, and not a statement of human risk. Association is not written as causation.
No findings are linked. The publication, when one exists, is not itself the scored unit.