The surgeons were honored for their paper “The Possible Pathogenesis in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Based on Experimental Model of Melatonin-deficit C57BL/6J Mice.” The surgeons are:
• Masafumi Machida, MD
• Jean Dubousset, MD
• Atsushi Miyake, MD, PhD
• Mitsuru Yagi, MD, PhD
• Masakuzu Takemitsu, MD, PhD
In their study, the surgeons used [125I] iodomelatonin-binding assay to find the melatonin receptor in the paraventricular hypothalamus nucleus is likely responsible for scoliosis development.
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