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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2015 Feb 24;232(14):2519–2530. doi: 10.1007/s00213-015-3886-1

Table 1. Effect of melatonin supplementation on circadian parameters in C57 mice across the entire 28-day study period.

Values obtained from non-orthogonal spectral analysis of home cage locomotor activity across all 28 days of the study. Values are presented as mean (SEM) and n = 15 control and 16 melatonin supplemented animals.

28 Days Combined
Control Melatonin
Amplitude 8.4 (0.9) 7.9 (0.8)
SD Amplitude 2.6 (0.2) 2.7 (0.1)
Time of Nadir 12.8 (1.9) 11.8 (1.4)
SD Time of Nadir 2.7 (0.3) 2.7 (0.4)
Time of Peak 19.7 (1.3) 21.7 (1.5)
SD Time of Peak 3.1 (0.3) 3.9 (0.3)