Sentences with phrase «same brain receptors»

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

Some compounds in chamomile (Matricaria recutita) bind to the same brain receptors as drugs like Valium.

The idea was that a structural adaptation to the drug oxymorphone, derived from morphine, would work tirelessly to attach to the same brain receptors that opioids like heroin attached to.

Newer medications are also available, including a synthetic opioid, buprenorphine, that targets the same brain receptors but is safer than methadone.

Not exact matches

If our results are confirmed in future studies, it would be a unique demonstration of convergent evolution of intelligence, involving the same neurotransmitter receptors despite the widely different brain structures of birds and mammals.»

Endocannabinoids, natural compounds in the brain that excite the same receptors as marijuana, influence gender - specific behaviors, according to a study published in November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

The LPA receptor is expressed in the brain of human fetuses, just as in mice, and in the same types of neural progenitor cells.

Methadone is an inexpensive opioid medication that targets the same receptors in the brain as opioid drugs, but is much longer - lasting than heroin or morphine.

Anandamide is among a class of naturally occurring chemicals in the body known as endocannabinoids that attach to the same brain cell receptors as does marijuana's active ingredient, THC, with similar outcomes.

At the same time, the obese girls sipping milk shakes showed decreased activation in the striatum, a region near the center of the brain that is studded with dopamine receptors and known to respond to stimuli associated with rewards.

«New drug could be safer, non-addictive alternative to morphine: The peptide - based drugs, which mimic a natural brain chemical, target the same pain - relieving opioid receptor as morphine.»

Biochemical tests of the adult animals showed that THC - doused brains had the same number of receptors that responded to THC as unexposed rat brains, but more receptors for heroin and more of a compound associated with reward behavior in their neurons, the team reports online 5 July in Neuropsychopharmacology.

Memantine acts on the same receptors in the brain as fast - acting ketamine, said Dr. Lisa Monteggia, Professor of Neuroscience.

During pregnancy, the number of neurosteroid receptors typically drops, presumably to protect the brain from high levels of progesterone and estrogen circulating at the same time.

Studies have shown that the NMDA receptor appears to operate in brain cells as a «coincidence detector»: It springs into action when two neurons fire at the same time, creating an association between them, and has therefore long been suspected to play a role in learning.

The researchers discovered that the same two receptors were targeted by HIV / gp120 sourced from either mouse or human brain tissue.

The benefits of using olfactory receptor neuron samples to study psychiatric disorders and patient responsiveness include their similarity to brain neurons, the relatively easy biopsy procedure, and the potential for scientists to sample and compare cells from the same patients throughout several different stages of disease.

Tanycytes found in the brain react to amino acids in food by way of the same «umami» taste receptors which are found in the tongue's taste buds that sense the amino acids» flavor.

MONDAY, Sept. 29 (Health.com)-- People who are missing a snippet of DNA from a brain - receptor gene are less likely to develop bipolar disorder than those with a longer version of the same gene.

If your brain can't generate and transmit the chemicals that make you feel good, you'll seek the effects from outside sources, and food / booze / drugs plug up the same receptors in the brain as the neurotransmitters should.

Your brain has receptors to opioids and dopamine which when activated provide a feeling of well - being in the same manner that drugs and alcohol do.

These chemicals cross the blood - brain barrier, enter the brain and bind to the same receptors that bind opiates like morphine and heroin, triggering a mild euphoria.

number of synapses, amount of neurotransmitters, and their receptors in neuromuscular junctions, the same thing in respect to the brain vs. motorneurons in the spinal cord, etc. the «neuron factor», if you will...

In case there is no enough amount of hormone to be pumped in the same receptors, the cells in your brains are limited to perform regularly.

These food - derived opioids activate the same opioid receptors in the brain that respond to prescription pain pills and heroin.

Gluten stimulates the same receptors in the brain that addictive drugs stimulate and is associated with psychological withdrawal symptoms, just like any addictive drugs.

It stimulates the brain receptors that respond to the pheromones so catnip is getting almost the same neurological responses from the cat.

Researchers aren't sure yet what causes the reaction but think nepetalactone may stimulate the same receptors in the brain that are effected by «happy» feline facial pheromones.

Today, it is known that animals possess the same receptors for the same neurochemicals associated with certain emotions in the same areas of the brain that humans.