Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase or FAAH

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Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase or FAAH

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Fatty acid amide hydrolase or FAAH is an enzyme that hydrolyzes bioactive amides including the endogenous cannabinoid anandamide to free arachidonic acid and ethanolamine. It is therefore viewed as an attractive drug target. FAAH was cloned in 1996 by Ben Cravatt at The Scripps Research Institute.

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Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Marc D. Binder
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Göttingen, Germany
Uwe Windhorst

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(2009). Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase or FAAH. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_1690

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_1690
Published: 24 January 2024
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
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