Abstract
It is widely diffused the role of melatonin as cell protection agent in both in vivo and in vitro models. Among the effects already described are the inhibition of apoptosis and neurodegeneration in different cell types (Luchetti et al., 2010), including hippocampal neurons stimulated by neurotoxin in vivo (Yalcin et al., 2004), cerebellar neurons after intracerebroventricular injection o…