Scientists at Loyola University Chicago discovered that the heart possesses "sweet taste" receptors similar to those found on the tongue. The research reveals that these receptors are functional in ...

In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses "sweet taste" receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and that stimulating these receptors with sweet substances can ...

The superfamily of nuclear receptors can accommodate both relatively rigid ligands as well as conformationally flexible ligands. Examples of the influence of ligand shape and flexibility on the ...

Thanks to our taste buds, we can enjoy sweet treats such as the Shamrock Shake at McDonald’s when they hit our tongue. While ...

So-called GABA A receptors are proteins that control the flow of ions into and out of cells. As they play such a vital role in how neurons slow down or stop firing, they have become the targets of ...

Neuropharmacology postdoc Nick DiPatrizio was stumped. His advisor, University of California, Irvine, researcher Daniele Piomelli, had discovered eight years earlier that hungry rats have high levels ...

Who hasn't been there? The big meal is over, you're full, but the craving for sweets remains. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research have now discovered that what we call ...

So-called GABA A receptors are proteins that control the flow of ions into and out of cells. As they play such a vital role in how neurons slow down or stop firing, they have become the targets of ...

A group of immune proteins called the inflammasome can help prevent blood stem cells from becoming malignant by removing certain receptors from their surfaces and blocking cancer gene activity ...