The Epigenetic Secrets Behind Dopamine and Addiction
R. Douglas Fields, Quanta
As I opened my copy of Science at home one night, an unfamiliar word in the title of a new study caught my eye: dopaminylation. The term refers to the brain chemical dopamine's ability, in addition to transmitting signals across synapses, to enter a cell's nucleus and control specific genes.
As I opened my copy of Science at home one night, an unfamiliar word in the title of a new study caught my eye: dopaminylation. The term refers to the brain chemical dopamine's ability, in addition to transmitting signals across synapses, to enter a cell's nucleus and control specific genes.