UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 16 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
HERSHEY, Pa. - Plants have always played an integral role in traditional medicine and healing practices, according to Kent Vrana, Elliot S. Vesell Professor of Pharmacology at Penn State College of Medicine, and they continue to shape health and medicine today.
Vrana, who is also director of the Center for Cannabis and Natural Product Pharmaceutics at Penn State, studies how chemical substances like drugs and medications interact with the body's systems. For over four decades, he has studied the mechanisms underpinning these interactions - in health and from such diseases as Parkinson's disease to substance use disorders - with the goal of le...