Scientists have found a reason why some people never seem to get warm while others never seem to feel the cold: some nerve cell receptors deep in the body are stimulated by signals other than ...

Dopamine receptors bind dopamine, insulin receptors bind insulin, nerve growth factor receptors bind nerve growth factor, and so on. In fact, there are hundreds of receptor types found in cells ...

For a long time, it was generally thought that these receptors primarily resided on nerve cells, which are the brain’s main communication units. However, recent evidence suggested that other ...

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Researchers create a cannabis-derived compound that relieves pain without the risk of addiction or mind-altering effects.

Similar effects are observed with opioid peptides in the brain, which contribute to the pain relief produced by another trophic protein, brain-derived nerve growth factor. [11] The exact receptor ...