New research reveals previously unknown ways opioid receptors can function, opening the door to safer pain treatments.

The gonadotropin hormone receptors, including the follicle-stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR) and the luteinizing hormone/choriogonadotropin receptor (LH/CGR), serve as integral mediators of ...

Drugs that act on NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors, which are essential for learning, memory and moment-by-moment consciousness, are key for treating neuropsychiatric disorders. These drugs were ...

Peptides have long attracted attention in the scientific community due to their structural simplicity yet vast range of ...

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) scientists have discovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people compared to ...

G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are proteins triggered by ligands (protein-binding chemicals) from outside cells to ...

Researchers at the NYU Pain Research Center have found a new receptor for nerve growth factor that plays an important role in pain signaling, even though it does not signal on its own, according to a ...

Scientists say their new insights into how a key brain protein works could help resolve a long-standing question in molecular ...

Neurons can rapidly rebalance their communication using a structural signal rather than electrical activity, overturning long-held assumptions about how synapses maintain stability.

The results of research headed by scientists at Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology suggest that the amino acid glycine can deliver a “slow-down” signal to the ...