The "coffee nap" trend is taking over social media. Learn the science behind drinking coffee before a short nap to wake up ...

Adenosine is a natural substance manufacturers may use in cosmetic and skin care products. Evidence suggests that adenosine can soothe skin and support wound healing and the natural functioning of the ...

Adenosine is a nucleoside that occurs naturally in all cells of the body. Chemically it is 6-amino-9-beta-D-ribofuranosyl-9-H-purine. Adenosine is made up of adenine attached to a ribose sugar ...

In a case of biotech-on-biotech M&A action, Portage Biotech will acquire Tarus Therapeutics and its haul of adenosine receptor antagonists. Westport, Connecticut-based Portage will hand over 2.4 ...

It has been established for several decades that extracellular adenosine is an important modulator of physiological and pathological processes that can be safely targeted by adenosine receptor ...

In the ED, adenosine is used to terminate supraventricular tachycardias (SVTs). It is also used by cardiologists for pharmacologic stress testing. Paroxysmal SVT has a prevalence of around 2.25 per ...

More than two years after acquiring Tarus Therapeutics, Portage Biotech is relaunching Tarus’ adenosine receptor antagonists in a standalone company helmed by a familiar leader. The offshoot, to be ...

Naturally rewarding stimuli (i.e. food, sex, etc) increase the activity of dopamine cells in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system causing increased dopamine release in brain areas such as the nucleus ...

I recently stopped drinking coffee. Yeah, I know, why would anybody do that? For me it was a combination of health-related reasons, and overall I can say I’m happy I did. If you had asked me a few ...

Whether we’re sipping it to get going in the morning or pounding it to stay awake later at night, our favorite psychoative drug is, as always, in high demand. Americans consume 400 million cups of ...

For all of its wild popularity, caffeine is one seriously misunderstood substance. It's not a simple upper, and it works differently on different people with different tolerances—even in different ...