Aya Osman | Assistant Professor Neuroscience

And @osmanaya.bsky.social is here on Bsky!

Thank you to all who joined us for our first in-person event! 💜 We hope you left feeling inspired and empowered!

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My first co–last author manuscript is now online in JPET! Here we show Kappa Opioid Receptor (KOR) trafficking and subsequent signalling is modulated by Endothelin-converting enzyme 2 with implications for disorders involving dysregulation in KOR signalling bit.ly/4nIaP7C

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Antidepressants and the endogenous opioid system The endogenous opioid system consists of three different G protein-coupled receptors, named mu-, delta- and kappa-opioid receptors (MOR, DOR, and KOR,…

Our new review on how the opioid system contributes to the mechanism of widely used antidepressants — and what new insights from ketamine research reveal is now out in Biochemical Pharmacology! Check it out

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Endothelin-converting enzyme 2 differentially regulates kappa opioid receptor trafficking and function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.11.642672v1