Tag Archives: receptor
Estimating effects of new psychoactive substances (NPS) based on in vitro neurotoxicity data
Farnesoid X receptor and liver X receptor ligands initiate formation of coated platelets
A novel PET radiotracer for molecular imaging of the α3β4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
Chemokines, an answer to the gut inflammation?
L-carnitine attenuates antipsychotic-induced hyperprolactinemia by stimulating pituitary GABA receptors

Antipsychotic-induced hyperprolactinaemia occurs overall in up to 70% of patients with schizophrenia, depending on the medications used. Hyperprolactinemia may cause sexual dysfunction, amenorrhea, infertility, galactorrhea, and osteoporosis, which in general relates to the degree of prolactin elevation.
The promiscuous mineralocorticoid receptor
Hormones and nerves are the key communication systems in the human body. Nerves are like a fixed-line telephone network, capable of very fast messaging: think of the pianist’s fingers playing the Minute Waltz. Hormones are like radio,
IL-1 Receptor 8: a novel player in immunothrombosis
RIC-3’s effect on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and the implications in health and disease
Signal transmission – cells sending and receiving signals from other cells – is the basis of physiology. Everything our body does essentially, is a result of this cell-to-cell communication and innumerable diseases are the results of this
Serotonin and sleep regulation: cellular and molecular mechanisms

Serotonin ( 5-HT ) is a neurotransmitter, which plays major roles in several physiological functions including circadian rhythmicity, appetite, thermoregulation, nociception, emotion and cognition. The relationship between 5-HT and sleep was demonstrated by several experiments, including in particular an
Androgen receptor; a tale of two cancers
Special molecular mechanism makes CD147 an interesting drug target in cancer or autoimmune diseases
The olfactory system may extract sensory information by summating signals from multiple receptors
BC007, first steps of this new drug on the way for future treatment of patients with cardiomyopathy
Another prince awakened Sleeping Beauty?
A synaptic receptor with a dual personality
Hosts and pathogens: war without end
Theodosius Dobzhansky once famously remarked that “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”. Nowhere is this truer than in the never ending struggle between animals and the pathogens (viruses, bacteria and parasites) which