enkephalin

Special endorphins have their own names, like enkephalin and β-endorphin.

Then she saw his glassy look, like a dazer, high on a self-induced enkephalin rush.

It was named enkephalin and its discovery was a major advance in the search for new analgesics.

It is one of the two forms of enkephalin; the other is met-enkephalin.

An enkephalin is a pentapeptide involved in regulating nociception in the body.

The receptors for enkephalin are the delta opioid receptors.

That was soon confirmed by the discovery in other laboratories of two brain substances, endorphin and enkephalin, which acted like opiates.

Instead, [Met]enkephalin is produced from its own precursor, proenkephalin A.

And a Belgian company, Plant Genetic Systems, introduced the brain protein enkephalin into rape plants.

Raphespinal neurons project to enkephalin releasing interneurons in the posterior horn of the spinal cord.

It employs GABA, acetylcholine, and enkephalin to perform its functions.

Enkephalinases are enzymes which degrade endogenous enkephalin opioid peptides.

It is through these receptors that [Met]enkephalin produces its opioid effects, such as analgesia and mood lift.

Notably, inhibition of ACE also reduces enkephalin catabolism.

Later opium-like activity was found in a group of larger peptides, named endorphins, and of which enkephalin was shown to be a key fragment.

They do nothing to block craving, and block endorphin and enkephalin, two natural neurotransmitters that regulate one's sense of well-being.

The brain was often flooded with endogenous opioid peptides such as endomorphines, enkephalin, dynorphin, endorphins-all painkillers.

This pathway uses dopamine, GABA and enkephalin.

Studies on rats indicate that PCP indirectly interacts with endorphin and enkephalin receptors to produce analgesia.

It also appears that the -opioid receptor system, which enkephalin acts on, is influential in the reward system and can regulate the expression of stress hormones.

It releases GABA, enkephalin, substance P, and acetylcholine.

Whatever this substance X was, displaced both naloxone (a synthetic morphine substitute) and enkephalin analogues (enkephalins are the body's own morphine-like substances.

The best-known of these peptides are those sometimes described as the body's natural pain-killers, the morphine-like family of the opioids, such as enkephalin and endorphin.

Products of carboxypeptidase E include insulin, enkephalin, vasopressin, oxytocin, and most other neuroendocrine peptide hormones and neuropeptides.

Fibers arising in the lateral portions of the entorhinal cortex show enkephalin immunoreactivity, whereas medial portions appear to contain cholecystokinin.