Each cell in your body relies on precise communication with other cells to function properly. At the center of this process ...

Venetia Zachariou, PhD, Edward Avedisian Professor and chair of pharmacology, physiology & biophysics at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received a Distinguished ...

Cells have proteins called receptors that ... molecular switches to internal signaling pathways. Membrane receptors fall into three major classes: G-protein-coupled receptors, ion channel ...

They have long been considered a potential target for non-opioid-based pain treatment; however, previous attempts to target this pathway have been met with ... a wide-ranging class of receptors known ...

β-arrestin-mediated signalling significantly expands the repertoire of 7TMR effectors from the well-characterized canonical pathways mediated by heterotrimeric G proteins to a wide array of other ...