Research Article

Melatonin in Epilepsy: A New Mathematical Model of Diurnal Secretion

Table 2

The results of Mann-Whitney test for the CG and the EG groups. The results marked in bold are significant with < 0.05.

ā€‰Median of the EG groupMedian of the CG group value

Minimum melatonin concentration [pg/mL]5.99336.46450.8813
Melatonin release amplitude [pg/mL]117.9186142.75160.0822
Phase shift of melatonin release [h]2.38511.48430.0071
Estimated sleep duration [h]7.28947.18350.522
Maximum melatonin concentration [pg/mL]124.7568151.82890.1068