CB1
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Translingual
Noun
CB1
- cannabinoid receptor 1: A neurotransmitter receptor for cannabinoids.
- 2019 May 14, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Can CBD Really Do All That?”, in The New York Times Magazine (in English):
- Two decades later, Allyn Howlett, a scientist then at St. Louis University Medical School, used a radioactive THC equivalent to trace where cannabinoids ended up in the brain and discovered what she would later call CB1 receptors. They were subsequently found in the kidneys, lungs and liver, too. White blood cells of the immune system, the gut and the spleen also have another type of cannabinoid receptor, known as CB2.
Hypernyms
- CBR (cannabinoid receptor)
Coordinate terms
- CNR1 (the gene which encodes for CB1)
Further reading
cannabinoid receptor type 1 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
