This compound originates from the work of Pharmaleads 'chief scientists, Professors Bernard P. Roques and Marie-Claude Fournie-Zaluski, and is a dual inhibitor of both enzymes responsible for the rapid degradation of enkephalins, the endogenous opiates.— Health News from Medical News Today
It therefore elicits an analgesic effect wherever enkephalins are produced as a response to a painful stimulus, and maintains a high level of these natural analgesic substances by preventing their rapid degradation.— Health News from Medical News Today
One possibility is that alcohol may increase or decrease the release and the synthesis of endogenous opioid peptides - endorphins, enkephalins and dynorphins - in distinct brain regions important for drug addiction.— PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Using an in vivo microdialysis technique, study authors tracked the response of endorphins, enkephalins, and dynorphins at the level of the midbrain, including the VTA.— PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
One possibility is that alcohol may increase or decrease the release and the synthesis of endogenous opioid peptides - endorphins, enkephalins and dynorphins - in distinct brain regions important for— MyLinkVault Newest Links

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