Coupling of multiple opioid receptors to GTPase following selective receptor alkylation in brain membranes
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Coupling of multiple opioid receptors to GTPase following selective receptor alkylation in brain membranes.
Opioid agonists of the mu, kappa and delta types stimulated low-Km guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) in membranes, from the brain of the rat by up to 34%, with potencies the rank order of which corresponded to the respective binding affinities to opioid receptor. In general, kappa ligands stimulated GTPase to a lesser degree than mu or delta opiates. The coupling of a given type of opioid recep...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropharmacology
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0028-3908
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3908(87)90129-8