The endocannabinoid system is found throughout the brain and body and plays a key role in everything from memory and learning ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have identified two receptors ...

Inhibitory receptors have increasingly been recognized as critical players in the maintenance of immune homeostasis. These receptors, expressed on a variety ...

Most communication between neurons is mediated by the neurotransmitter glutamate. The finding that temperature influences how glutamate binds to neuronal receptor proteins to initiate signal ...

Ozempic being a household name, GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), a class of medications have garnered significant attention for their ability to treat diabetes, promote weight loss, and reduce ...

Emerging evidence suggests there may be a critical window for estrogen therapy to protect against cognitive decline later in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The ability to accurately detect heat and pain is critical to human survival, but scientists have struggled to understand on a molecular level exactly how our bodies sense these ...

High-resolution microscopic images of T cells that have been engineered with TGF-beta SNIPRs (shown in red) as they bind to TGF-beta (shown in green). The SNIPRs activate once the receptors fold into ...

Researchers have discovered the exact structure of the receptor that makes our sensory nerves tingle when we eat sushi garnished with wasabi. And because the "wasabi receptor" is also involved in pain ...

The activation of taste receptors by various food molecules triggers specific pathways, resulting in the sensation of taste. The association of chloride ion, a component of table salt, with a sweet ...