Editorial

It’s time to make melatonin a useful tool in improving cardiac rhythmicity

Harold Dowse 

School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Emeritus, USA 

Correspondence: Harold Dowse, Harold Dowse, Department of Biology and Ecology, Box 5751, Murray Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04460–5751, USA, Email [email protected] 

Received: February 01, 2024                                    Published: February 13, 2024 

Citation: Dowse H. It’s time to make melatonin a useful tool in improving cardiac rhythmicity. AOJ Emerg and Int Med. 2024;1(1):29–31. 

Copyright: ©2024 Dowse. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially.

Keywords: Drosophila, melatonin, cardiac, rhythmicity

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