Although the effects of anti-inflammatory drugs have been well studied, little is known about the signaling pathways involved in the inflammatory response. The recent finding that cyclopentenone ...

Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) responses could play a role in Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology. That’s the conclusion of a study reported in the current Journal of Neuroscience. Katrin Andreasson and ...

Prostaglandins been linked to the sensory perception of pain, but their role in the emotional response to pain is unclear. A new study has demonstrated that the aversive effects of inflammatory pain ...

Scientists at the NYU Pain Research Center have identified which receptor in prostaglandins—the hormone-like substance targeted by common painkillers—causes pain but not inflammation. The findings, ...

Scientists at the NYU Pain Research Center have identified which receptor in prostaglandins – the hormone-like substance targeted by common painkillers – causes pain but not inflammation. The findings ...

Omega 3 fatty acids in dietary fish oil are reported to have anti-inflammatory and anti-thrombogenic and anti-arrhythmic effects in humans, but the biochemical basis for these beneficial health ...

John Vane, the British pharmacologist who in 1982 shared a Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on prostaglandins, hormone-like substances that affect a wide range of body mechanisms, has died. He was ...