Kavli Affiliate: Kevin Bender | Authors: Ryan Alexander and Kevin Bender | Summary: Opioids regulate circuits associated with motivation and reward across the brain. Of the opioid receptor types, delta opioid receptors (DORs) appear to have a unique role in regulating the activity of circuits related to reward without a liability for abuse. In neocortex, […]
Continue.. Delta opioid receptors engage multiple signaling cascades to differentially modulate prefrontal GABA release with input and target specificity