Psychoactive compound activates mysterious receptor
Friday, February 13, 2009 - 03:50
in Biology & Nature
A hallucinogenic compound found in a plant indigenous to South America and used in shamanic rituals regulates a mysterious protein that is abundant throughout the body, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have discovered...
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