This could explain how in the presence of Leu-Enk ... analogs of opioids had greatly increased affinities for the opioid receptors. Dimeric analogs of morphine and enkephalin exhibit higher ...

New research found that individuals with anorexia nervosa have elevated opioid neurotransmitter activity, which may ...

Opioids are a class of drugs that “derive from, or mimic, natural substances found in the opium poppy plant”, according to ...

Elevated opioid neurotransmission in the brain may underlie appetite loss and emotional symptoms in anorexia nervosa.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new pain management drug which could change the way healthcare ...

Naloxone displaces the opioid from the brain receptors, which stops the effects of the overdose for sixty to ninety minutes. This allows time for a hospital to intervene.

“The antibodies are like a sponge that go around soaking the drug up,” explained chemist and immunologist Kim Janda, director of the Worm Institute for Research and Medicine at Scripps Research. This ...

The endogenous opioid system, which includes receptors that naturally occurring ... and to lead the way to other new treatments,” explained study author Cheng Jiang, an associate research ...