Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study has found. This stops pain signals before they get to the brain. The discovery could help ...

The availability of suzetrigine may represent a critical step in addressing the nation’s pain management crisis. While ...

Researchers at UCSF discovered that regulatory T cells (T-regs) in the meninges produce natural opioids, and their pain-suppressing effects are influenced by estrogen and progesterone.

Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study from researchers at UC San Francisco has found. This stops pain signals before they get ...

Research also finds they also have lower pain thresholds, so less stimulation is needed to activate the receptors in the ...

Endocannabinoids bind to cannabinoid receptors throughout ... that endocannabinoids and opioids may not act together in areas of the brain and spinal cord involved in analgesia," Dr. Rajadhyaksha ...

Specific CNS opioid receptors for endogenous compounds with opioid-like activity have been identified throughout the brain and spinal cord and play a role in the analgesic effects of this drug.