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3 papers in the library · publishing 2005-2009
Chemical & Engineering News February 16, 2009
NERVE RECEPTOR BINDS HALLUCINOGENIC LIGAND A hallucinogenic compound found in psychoactive snuffs and sacramental teas used in native shamanic rituals in South America has helped elucidate the role of a receptor found throughout the nervous system ( Science 2009, 323, 934). The sigma-1 receptor was known to bind many synthetic compounds, and it was originally mischaracterized as a receptor for...
Chemical & Engineering News July 17, 2006 Ivan Amato
RETURN TO ISSUEPREVNewsNEXTPSILOCYBIN STUDIES TURN A NEW LEAFScientists aim to set psychedelics research on a sound scientific footingIVAN AMATOCite this: Chem. Eng. News 2006, 84, 29, 10Publication Date (Print):July 17, 2006Publication History Published online14 November 2010Published inissue 17 July...
Chemical & Engineering News January 24, 2005 Sophie Rovner
New treatments for addiction could result from studies of ibogaine, an alkaloid derived from a West African shrub. Animal tests and anecdotal evidence in humans have indicated that ibogaine reduces cravings for alcohol and other drugs of abuse. Now, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have confirmed these findings in rodents and determined that ibogaine interacts with...