A step ahead in pharmaceutical research
Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 08:00
in Health & Medicine
Hormones and other neurotransmitters, but also drugs, act upon receptors. "Their active substances bind to the receptors and modify the three-dimensional receptor arrangement regulating the downstream signal pathways," says Hannes Schihada from the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Würzburg (JMU).