A receptor that cannabis latches onto in the brain could be a promising target for future mental health treatments.

Chronic pain affects millions of people in the US. Targeting an oft-overlooked brain receptor could one day offer relief.

He squirted the radio-labeled CP-55,990 onto the brain slices and then took pictures of them ... They gave some people a chemical called SR141716 that blocks the brain’s cannabinoid receptors, ...

EM, researchers elucidated the structure of key receptors integral to fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the rat ...

For the first time, scientists using cryo-electron microscopy have discovered the structure and shape of key receptors ...

Although this method yields a highly localized production of glutamate and has proven useful for mapping the location and function of glutamate receptors in brain slice preparations 3,7,8, it has ...

The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is a key regulator of stress responses, and CB1—encoded by the Cnr1 gene—is the main ECS receptor in the brain, the team continued, noting “… ...

Slices Of Living Brain Tissue Are Helping Scientists Identify New Stroke Therapies. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 27, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 01 / 090121122838.htm ...

The team used a technique called in-vitro receptor autoradiography to map the density of receptors from six different neurotransmitter systems in over 100 brain regions. To find the patterns in this ...

Structure of crucial receptor in brain development, function. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 1, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 09 / 230920152410.htm. Oregon Health & Science ...

More information: Mariana Alves et al, P2X7R antagonism suppresses long-lasting brain hyperexcitability following traumatic brain injury in mice, Theranostics (2024). DOI: 10.7150/thno.97254 ...