멜라토닌

용도

• Sleep disorders (nocturnal activity)
• Suppression of estrus
• Reduction of gastric ulcers in young pigs
• Adjunctive treatment of adrenal disease
• Adjunctive treatment of adrenal disease
• Alopecia-X, canine pattern baldness, or recurrent flank alopecia (experimental)
• Canine recurrent flank alopecia or seasonal flank alopecia
• Alopecia X
• Color dilution alopecia
• Alopecia-X
• Sleep disorders (nocturnal activity)
• Sleep aid, fears, and phobias
• Idiopathic vacuolar hepatopathy

투여 방법

가능한 부작용

• Sedation or drowsiness
• Altered sex hormone secretion and fertility
• Sterile abscesses at subcutaneous implant sites
• No information available in monograph (generally well tolerated, may cause mild sedation)

주의사항 및 금기

• Pregnancy
• Sexually immature animals
• Hepatic insufficiency (in humans)
• No information available
• Use with caution in patients with renal impairment. Because of its CNS depressant qualities, it should be used cautiously in patients with a history of cerebrovascular disease, depression, or neurological disorders. Animals nursing young may not benefit from implant therapy.

약물 상호작용

• Benzodiazepines: Melatonin may potentiate sedative effects
• Succinylcholine: Melatonin may potentiate neuromuscular blocking effects

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