opioid receptor tagged posts

Renewed Hope for Treatment of Pain and Depression

Fig. 3
SAR analysis of adrenorphin variants on ACKR3 and classical opioid receptors.

Novel molecule targets a newly discovered opioid receptor with atypical properties and holds promise for alternative therapeutic strategies.

Researchers at the Department of Infection and Immunity of the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) developed LIH383, a novel molecule that binds to and blocks a previously unknown opioid receptor in the brain, thereby modulating the levels of opioid peptides produced in the central nervous system (CNS) and potentiating their natural painkilling and antidepressant properties...

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