Objective To discover whether pinealectomy had the same effect in mammals as shown in the chicken, and to determine whether the bipedal condition is important in the development of scoliosis.

Methods The spontaneous firing of SCN neurons was recorded in vivo extracellularly during the subjective day (CT4-8) and the subjective night (CT16-20) after pinealectomy (PINX) and after inhibition of endogenous melatonin (MEL) synthesis by methotrexate (MTX), and the effect of exogenous MEL on the neuronal firing of SCN was examined.

The spontaneous firing of hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) neurons was recorded in vivo extracellularly during the subjective day (CT1O-14) and the subjective night (CT22-02) after pinealectomy (PINX) and after inhibition of endogenous melatonin (MEL) synthesis by methotrexate (MTX), and the effect of exogenous MEL on the neuronal firing of SCN was examined.

Clock and Per2 mRNA expression in the pineal gland and the change in plasma melatonin of neonatal rats with hypoxic-ischemic brain damage;

Circadian rhythms and different photoresponses of Clock gene transcription in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus and pineal gland;

Circadian rhythms and light responses of clock gene and arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase gene expressions in the pineal gland of rats;

Controversy on Pineal Region Tumors and Strategy of Management;

Combined modality therapy for primary choriocarcinoma in the pineal region:report of two cases;

Treatment of hydrocephalus after tumorectomy in the pineal region via infratentorial supracerebellar approach;

Aging changes in cellular structure of pineal body in rats;

Histological structural alternation of rat pineal body with aging;

Immunohistochemical comparison of functional status of pineal body in Laiwu Black goats between winter and spring;