Cannabinoid receptor

Abstract In Understanding Addiction, we learn about the six major drug classes (Stimulants, CNS Depressants, Hallucinogens, Inhalants, Cannabinoids, and Narcotics) and what they do to the body and brain, and how history has affected drug use today. We also learned about cultural differences of drug use. To understand addiction, we need to understand how drugs work and what they do. Understanding Addiction Final Research Paper Stimulants In the six major drug types, stimulants are considered…

Cannabinoids have demonstrated huge guarantee in essential tests on torment. Fringe nerves that distinguish torment sensations contain rich receptors for cannabinoids, and cannabinoids seem to piece fringe nerve torment in exploratory creatures. Considerably additionally reassuring, fundamental examinations propose that sedatives and cannabinoids smother torment through various components. On the off chance that this is the…

I believe that it is a shame that in 2008, 12.7 million people were diagnosed with cancer and an additional 7.6 million people die from this tragic disease. The World Health Organization states that in the year of 2030, this statistic will grow to 21.4 and 13.2 million respectively (Fanghua, 2010, p.297). But, what is cancer. Cancer is a disease caused by non-stop division of cells and it can happen almost anywhere in the human body. People who are stricken with this disease are people who are…

studies with cannabinoids have been largely ineffective at producing positive place preferences and the studies that have shown cannabinoid place preference have done so at various doses and magnitudes depending on the training procedure used across studies. Although very specific dosing parameters are required to produce place preferences for many drugs in the CPP paradigm (Bardo and Bevins 2000; Tzschentke 1998, the ability of cannabinoids, such as THC and the synthetic CB1 receptor…

Chemotherapy is chemical therapy that is a frequently used course of treatment for patients diagnosed with cancer. While this therapy can often improve prognoses, it also causes nausea, a generalized feeling of sickness, and emesis, a vomitus product of nausea. Chemotherapy induced emesis can cause critical manifestations that lead to a substandard patient quality of life and negatively influence his or her ability to comply with the therapy. This can result in patients prematurely discontinuing…

Lori Macintosh Cannabis and its Effects on the Body and Society Introduction Cannabis is the name given to the medical and recreational drug prepared for use from the cannabis plant. Indigenous to Central and South Asia, it is known to have been used by ancient Hindus in India and Nepal thousands of years ago and has an ancient history of being used in rituals. Criminalization of cannabis in various countries began in the early 20th century. Cannabis is currently rated a Class B drug in the UK…

marijuana does work like other prescriptions drugs. “Cannabinoids [the active ingredient within the marijuana plant] affect the user by interacting with specific receptors, located within different parts of the central nervous system (National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, 2008).” These receptors are known as CB1 and CB2 (National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, 2008). Depending on the part of the brain the cannabinoids interact determines the effect they will have on…

400 chemicals found in weed, which are also known as cannabinoids, called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol AKA THC. This chemical is responsible for the psychoactive effects it has the human mind. It accomplishes this by activating the cannabinoid receptors, CB1 and CB2. The CB1 receptors are located in the brain and the CB2 are located in the eyes, also the tonsils and thymus glands. Theses receptors act like light bulbs, when electricity (cannabinoids) comes in contact with them they turn on,…

applications and are used in religious and cultural settings. The stalk of the cannabis ruderalis species is used to manufacture hemp fiber. Cannabinoids, a diverse group of compounds, are synthesized by all three species of cannabis. Cannabinoids are chemical compounds that react with cannabinoid receptors in an individual’s brain. The most well-known cannabinoids are tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). THC is responsible for the psychoactive effects of smoking or ingesting…

pharmaceutical drugs. None seemed to work , then amendment 20 was passed in Colorado in 2000. That 's when her parents decided to apply for medical marijuana. They bought cannabidiol oil , or CBD oil, which has no psychoactive properties one of many cannabinoids in the cannabis plant it purely medical no “high” is produced by CBD. The seizures went from, having five to ten seizures a day to no more than one a day. This is only one…