Pleasant tactile stimulation drives social bonding in many animal species, especially mammals. Tactile stimulation forms the ...

They also found that clemastine’s benefits came from blocking just one of the five muscarinic receptors, M1R, but the effect on M1R was middling, and the drug also affected the other receptors. The ...

Imagine your immune cells could be modified to attack any kind of cancer. T cell receptor (TCR) therapy has the potential to ...

Viruses and bacteria are always trying to sneak into our bodies, but researchers at the University of Missouri are ...

Specifically, the concentration of receptors for certain bacterial toxins increases, making the body more susceptible to inflammation. The study was recently published in the journal Redox Biology.

Metabolic hypogonadism, a condition marked by low testosterone levels and frequently seen in obese individuals, contributes ...

These receptors are crucial molecules that help control the movement of ions in and out of cells, a process that has many important impacts. As such, GABAA receptors have been the target of drugs ...

Pain is easy to understand until it isn’t. A stubbed toe or sprained ankle hurts, but it makes sense because the cause is ...

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling inhibition represents a highly promising arena for the application of molecularly targeted cancer therapies. Evolving from several decades of ...

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