When mice are full and eat sugar, these nerve cells not only release signaling molecules that ... to eat sugar even beyond fullness. This opioid pathway in the brain was specifically activated ...

Blocking opiate signaling of this pathway may support current and future obesity treatments. To find the cause of the "dessert stomach", the researchers investigated the reaction of mice to sugar ...

The Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has discovered a brain mechanism that makes us crave sugar even when we are full. This pathway releas ...

In mice and humans, the "dessert-stomach pathway" is activated by mere perception by releasing the opiate ß-endorphin, which makes evolutionary sense because sugar provides quick energy. Blocking ...

U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have reproduced the pain-relieving effects of cannabis with a synthesized compound that ...

The researchers also found that molecular signaling pathways triggered by μ-opioid and TLR4 receptors played a role in regulating inflammatory and membrane weakening responses as well.

When mice are full and eat sugar, these nerve cells not only release signaling molecues that ... to eat sugar even beyond fullness. This opioid pathway in the brain was specifically activated ...

When the researchers blocked the pathway, the mice refrained from ... our findings may revive investigations on endogenous opioid signaling in sugar appetite regulation and accelerate further ...