Sentences with phrase «opiate receptor research»
Opiate receptor research has paid off both in fundamental understanding of brain function and in the development of novel therapeutic agents.
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There, he continued his opiate - receptor research, but a particular opiatelike receptor, named «sigma,» began to monopolize his attention.
At Cornell, Bowen wrote a research proposal to examine the mechanism of action between opiates and their receptors, a mechanism that was largely unknown at the time.
«I am honored that the Lasker Foundation has chosen this year to recognize the field of opiate receptor and opiate - like peptide research,» he said.
But it was Pert's supervisor, Solomon Snyder, who in 1978 shared the prestigious Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award with two scientists working in Scotland, Hans Kosterlitz and John Hughes, the first to isolate the enkephalins, natural chemicals that bind to the opiate receptors.
Snyder is a recipient of the 1978 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for identifying the relation of opiate receptors to naturally - ocurring enkephalins.
Dr. Candace Pert has confirmed as much through her discovery of the bodily opiate receptor and research on neuropeptides demonstrating that that emotions are literally encoded throughout organs and tissues.