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Anandamide serves two masters in the brain

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Two studies in this issue find that postsynaptic TRPV1 receptors affect AMPA receptor endocytosis to mediate anandamide-induced long-term depression in the hippocampus and nucleus accumbens.

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Figure 1: Modulation of synaptic strength in the brain by anandamide acting on both TRPV1 and CB1 receptors.

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