Sentences with phrase «other brain receptors»

Although antipsychotic drugs are among the most widely prescribed medications, individuals with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism - spectrum disorders often experience severe side effects because the drugs interact with dozens of other brain receptors.

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In other words, chocolate may slow the speed at which the receptor sucks up the serotonin in your brain, which enables you to feel happier for longer bouts of time.

Vivitrol, on the other hand, is designed to block opioid receptors in the brain, which prevents users from getting high and, in theory, helps break their addiction.

As they studied brain activity in the knockout mice, the researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the brain known as mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatrics.

The cerebellum has the highest density of glucocorticoid receptors, which are involved in stress responses, than any other place in the brain.

This works as other general anesthetics work, acting on receptors in the brain — possibly the GABA [gamma - aminobutyric acid] receptors, because that is a mechanism for a lot of sleepiness in the brain.

PET scans have demonstrated that some individuals have twice as many mu opiate receptors in certain brain regions as others.

At around age 10, spurred by sex steroids and other important growth hormones, the brain starts to prune dopamine receptors in the striatum, an important part of the basal ganglia, and in the prefrontal cortex.

Despite all of these negative effects they have very little benefit in improving psychosis in people with dementia Pimavanserin works differently to other antipsychotics, by blocking a very specific nerve receptor (THT2A) in the brain.

Other companies, including Pfizer, based in New York, have invested in nicotinic - receptor modulators to treat Alzheimer's disease and attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (see Aiming at the brain's nicotine receptors).

LPA receptors are all over neural progenitor cells, which go on to form neurons and other types of cells in a young brain.

The brain stem and certain other parts of the brain are particularly rich in the receptors that attach to opioids.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

«The brain along with the reproductive system and every other cell in your body is exquisitely sensitive to exceedingly small changes in estrogen and other sex hormones, and the fact that the environment is full of chemicals that can activate estrogen receptors means this phenomenally sensitive system is being perturbed constantly by environmental factors.»

Although fetuses start forming pain receptors eight weeks into development, the thalamus, the part of the brain that routes information to other areas, doesn't form for 20 more weeks.

Novitch's UCLA lab group has likewise used its brain organoids to pinpoint additional receptors by which the virus may gain entry into neural stem cells, and identified a few other drug leads for blocking infection.

In the absence of that protein, other proteins involved in transmitting signals between neurons in the brain are overproduced, notably mGluR5, a receptor for the neurotransmitter glutamate.

Receptors facilitate chemical and electrical signals between neurons in the brain, allowing those neurons to communicate with each other.

The molecule can influence signals sent by a number of other receptors in the brain, many involved in pain and inflammation.

She notes that there are other studies underway to figure out the receptors in the brain that are affected by stimuli like the odor of androstadienone, which could help determine the reason for the corresponding hormone hikes.

Instead, it acts on chemicals in the brain, primarily receptors for serotonin, a chemical messenger involved in mood, among many other things.

And they found that, in turn, hormonelike substances called prostaglandins were secreted along with other substances that, combined with the dilation of scalp arteries, stimulate the brain's pain receptors.

The endothelial cells have a receptor for transferrin that acts like a gatekeeper: When transferrin binds to a receptor on the blood side of the barrier, the endothelial cell transports it (and its iron cargo) to the other side and spits it out into the brain.

The brains of montane voles, on the other hand, have far fewer vasopressin receptors and therefore make much weaker connections between pair bonding and pleasure.

These substitute drugs can also attach to opioid receptors in the brain, blocking access to other, more deadly drugs.

They gave some of the rats flutamide, which blocks testosterone from activating receptors in the brain, and gave others tamoxifen, which blocks estrogen receptors, finding that the drugs lessen the anxious behavior in the rats.

The weight - reducing effects of leptin, a hormone that signals the size of the body's fat stores, result from interaction with a receptor in the brain's hypothalamus and other tissues, HHMI scientists...

This slide nicely shows this particular receptor, and that it's typically found in different regions of this brain, but also found in other tissues.

When certain chemicals in food or other materials trigger a response in these receptors, the brain detects one or more flavors — sweet, sour, salty, bitter or umami.

Previous research by Dixson and others has shown that as water becomes more acidic, it begins to interfere with a structure — called a receptor — on cells in a fish's brain.

The combination technique developed by Yang et al. will likely be used by other scientists to further study the role of NMDA receptors in specific brain cells during addiction and normal brain activity.

Other studies show that another compound in dark chocolate, called anandamide, activates the same brain receptors as marijuana.

When receptor doors close, there's inflammation, there's a shut down of cell function, and **** other hormones, like Thyroid, Sex, and Leptin (which tells our brain we're full) are prevented from entering and delivering their messages.

In certain women with PMS, progesterone after ovulation changes the GABA receptor in your brain so that it is no longer able to respond to progesterone and other neurosteroids.

The male may still be trying to mount other dogs for a few months as his testosterone bound by receptors in his brain gradually reduces.

However, with the canonization of Duchamp following his death in 1968, presentational art began proliferating, and, like a drug, it soon swamped the brain's receptors for other kinds of sensations.

DRD2 codes for the D2 receptor and is found throughout the body, but especially in the striatum, the pituitary gland, the amygdala, the caudatus, the putamen, and other regions of the brain [22].