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CB1
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Translingual
Noun
mul noun CB1
en cannabinoid receptor 1: A neurotransmitter receptor for cannabinoids.
en mul Moises Velasquez-Manoff Can CBD Really Do All That? w:The New York Times Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/14/magazine/cbd-cannabis-cure.html 2019-05-14 Two decades later, Allyn Howlett, a scientist then at St. Louis University Medical School, used a radioactive THC equivalent to trace where cannabinoids ended up in the brain and discovered what she would later call CB1 receptors. They were subsequently found in the kidneys, lungs and liver, too. White blood cells of the immune system, the gut and the spleen also have another type of cannabinoid receptor, known as CB2. https://web.archive.org/web/20220318175251/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/14/magazine/cbd-cannabis-cure.html
Hypernyms
mul CBR cannabinoid receptor
Coordinate terms
mul CNR1 the gene which encodes for CB1
Further reading
en cannabinoid receptor type 1