Bi- or multifunctional opioid peptide drugs
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Opioid mechanisms and opioid drugs
C appreciate that there is interplay between the actions of the different subtypes of receptor and hence the value of drugs which target multiple receptor subtypes. Abstract The opioid system comprises four receptor subtypes: m (MOP), k (KOP), d (DOP), now called the ‘classical’ opioid receptors, and the ‘non classical’ nociceptin/orphanin FQ peptide (N/OFQ) receptor (NOP). Selective endogenous...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Life Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0024-3205
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2009.02.025