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n. - An endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere.

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  • One of the milestones in the history of neuroscience research was the discovery of 'enkephalin' by John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz.
  • William Frey II, a biochemist at the St Paul-Ramsey Medical Center in Minneapolis, found that tears aren't just salt water; they contain leucine enkephalin, an endorphin...
  • Pain blocked presynaptically by release of enkephalin & dynorphin
  • The monoclonal antibody used to visualize ENK does not distinguish between met-enkephalin and leu-enkephalin
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