Table 1.

Distribution of MT₁ and MT₂ melatonin receptors expressed in human tissues

		Tissue	Technique	Reference
hMT1	Brain	Cerebellum	RT‐PCR	Mazzucchelli et al. (1996)
			In situ hybridization	Al‐Ghoul et al. (1998)
		Occipital cortex	RT‐PCR	Mazzucchelli et al., (1996)
		Parietal cortex	RT‐PCR	Mazzucchelli et al. (1996)
		Temporal cortex	RT‐PCR	Mazzucchelli et al. (1996)
		Thalamus	RT‐PCR	Mazzucchelli et al. (1996)
		Frontal cortex	RT‐PCR	Mazzucchelli et al. (1996)
		Hippocampus	RT‐PCR	Mazzucchelli et al. (1996)
			Immunohistochemistry	Savaskan et al. (2001)
		SCN	In situ hybridization	Weaver and Reppert (1996)
	Peripheral tissues	Retina	Immunocytochemistry	Savaskan et al. (2001)
				Savaskan et al. (2002)
				Scher et al. (2002)
				Scher et al. (2003)
		Brown and white adipose tissue	RT‐PCR	Brydon et al. (2001)
		Fetal kidney	RT‐PCR	Drew et al. (1998)
		Coronary artery	RT‐PCR	Ekmekcioglu et al. (2001a,b)
		Granulosa cells	RT‐PCR	Soares et al. (2003)
				Niles et al. (1999)
		Myometrium	RT‐PCR, in‐situ hybridization	Schlabritz‐Loutsevitch et al. (2003)
		Pancreatic alpha and beta cells	RNA sequencing	Blodgett et al. (2015)
		Testis	RT‐PCR	Rossi et al. (2014)
hMT2	Brain	Cerebellum	In situ hybridization	Al‐Ghoul et al. (1998)
		Hippocampus	Immunocytochemistry	Savaskan et al. (2005)
		SCN	Immunocytochemistry	Wu et al. (2013)
	Peripheral tissues	Retina	RT‐PCR	Reppert et al. (1995a)
			Immunohistochemistry	Savaskan et al. (2007)
		Brown and white adipose tissue	RT‐PCR	Brydon et al. (2001)
		Fetal kidney	RT‐PCR	Drew et al. (1998)
		Granulosa cells	RT‐PCR	Soares et al. (2003)
				Niles et al. (1999)
		Placental tissues	RT‐PCR and Western blot	Lanoix et al. (2006)
		Myometrium	In‐situ hybridization	Schlabritz‐Loutsevitch et al. (2003)
			RT‐PCR	Sharkey et al. (2009)
		Pancreatic alpha and beta cells	RNA sequencing	Blodgett et al. (2015)
		Testis	RT‐PCR	Rossi et al. (2014)