In the heart there are two different subtypes of beta-adrenergic receptors - beta1 and beta2 - which are activated by the stress hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline.

Scientists have revealed the molecular structure of a type of receptor that's crucial to brain development and function. 'This study shows the dominant assemblies and states of the GABA receptor ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered new insights that may aid in understanding and potentially treating one of the ...

New proteomics research is enabling scientists to decipher how neurotransmitter receptors behave and change as an organism develops. The new work could help scientists better understand the formation ...

What 400 million years of evolutionary history reveal about the function of both fish and human bitter receptors was recently published in the journal Genome Biology ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 87, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 128-132 (5 pages) Porcine aorta endothelial cells are devoid of receptors for platelet ...

The most common type of brain tumor in children, pilocytic astrocytoma (PA), accounts for about 15% of all pediatric brain tumors.