Tourette's syndrome. Clonidine is sometimes used to treat the involuntary, repetitive movements or sounds that characterize this disorder. While dopamine-receptor-blocking drugs such as ...
Synaptic NMDARs (N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors) and AMPARs (α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid receptors), two major classes of glutamate-gated ion channels, are localized to ...
Olfactory receptors are able to detect air-borne odour molecules that enter the nasal cavity and bind to olfactory receptors. The activation of olfactory receptors results in olfactory receptor ...
Xiaoyu Song and Professor Jan-Åke Gustafsson from the University of Houston and Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) shed light on the therapeutic potential of liver X receptor beta (LXRβ) in treating ...
When breast cancer cells test positive for estrogen receptors, it’s called estrogen receptor-positive (ER-positive) breast cancer. It means that estrogen is fueling the growth of the cancer.
However, more of the clonidine-treated infants needed adjunct ... that is disrupted by morphine" and "downregulates opioid receptor expression in neonatal mononuclear cells." ...
Three medications have spasticity reduction as their primary indication: baclofen (Lioresal ®), dantrolene (Dantrium ®), and tizanidine (Zanaflex ®). These drugs represent the mainstays of ...
Estrogen Receptor Subtypes & Bioidentical Estrogens Estrogen-receptor subtypes may influence how various estrogens act in different tissues. Estradiol binds equally to estrogen receptors α and ß ...
The human gut is home to helpful microbes, called the microbiota, who produce molecules known as metabolites. These metabolites are being increasingly recognized for their role in supporting our ...