This study measured oxytocin in circulating blood (not in the brain, where it may do its heaviest lifting) in a naturalistic setting.
The gene is active in soldier ants, particularly in five neurons in the front of their brain, where it generates large amounts of its product, a protein known as PKG.
Besides, another important site for synthesis of DHEA is the brain, where it is further metabolized to its 7α- and 7β-hydroxy-forms.
FMRP is an RNA‐binding protein, abundantly expressed in the mammalian brain, where it binds 4% of the whole transcriptome, including its own message (Ashley et al, 1993).
Raw 'pixel' data travels from your eye to your brain, where it passes through layer after layer of processing.
One group, in San Diego, called it hypocretin, after the hypothalamus, the area of the brain where it is produced.
The bullet had taken a path straight to the back of his brain, where it had ricocheted, causing irreparable damage.
Was it possible that he had a clot, not in his brain where it would cause a stroke, but in his leg?
It is made in the small intestine in response to food and then carried by the bloodstream to the brain, where it switches off the urge to eat.
And disgust has been relatively easy to locate in the brain, where it frequents the insula, the amygdala and other regions.
One of the main drugs is Levodopa, which enters the brain where it is converted into dopamine by the body to replace the diminishing supply.
