Sentences with phrase «regulate pain perception»

This neurotransmitter is of particular importance for people diagnosed with inflammatory digestive problems since this neurotransmitter can help regulate pain perception in these gut issues.

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The researchers attached these entry keys to PNAs designed to shut down expression of a test gene — the galanin receptor gene, which binds a protein, galanin, that helps regulate everything from pain perception to food intake.

A molecule best known for its involvement in pain perception also plays an important role in regulating body weight, according to new studies in mice by scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical...

A quick review of biochemistry will tell you that these fat derivatives act in a number of ways: they maintain our immune system by regulating inflammation, serve to monitor our pain perception, regulate and control allergic reactions, and even keep our platelets in balance to ensure we don't bleed too heavily.

Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that help regulate things like mood, performance, weight, pain perception, and sleep.

These regulate many neurobehavioral effects such as appetite, satiation, mood, pain perception, and the sleep - wake cycle.

Although central dopamine regulates a number of pathways in the body that impact cognition, motor control, mood, pain perception, and sexual behavior [42], it has also been shown to mediate food motivation and reward through a variety of learning and motivational pathway [43].