POTENCY RATIO BETWEEN OPIOID AGONISTS AND PARTIAL AGONISTS
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Potency ratio between opioid agonists and partial agonists.
POTENCY RATIO BETWEEN OPIOID AGONISTS AND PARTIAL AGONISTS Sir,—The paper by Klepper and colleagues (1986) again seems to indicate the belief of this group of workers in a fixed potency ratio between opioid agonists and partial agonists, although such a concept is theoretically unlikely (Kay, 1985). Support for a variable potency ratio is apparent in their paper, however, in that nalbuphine in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/59.6.810