Fatty pain cures.
In this issue, Alvin King, Daniele Piomelli, and colleagues publish another interesting paper on inhibition of monoacylglycerol lipase (MGL). MGL is a hot target for antinociceptive agents, being the chief degrading enzyme of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol.
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Institut für Pharmazie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Wolfgang-Langenbeck-Str. 4, 06120 Halle/Saale, Germany. peter.imming@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
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