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Association between human opioid receptor genes polymorphisms and pressure pain sensitivity in females*.
Anaesthesia - 1 Dec 2008
Huang C-J, Liu H-F, Su N-Y, Hsu Y-W, Yang C-H, Chen C-C, Tsai P-S
Abstract excerpt
This study examined the association between pressure pain sensitivity and various single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of human micro-, kappa-, and delta-opioid receptor (i.e. OPRM1, OPRK1, and OPRD1) genes in 72 healthy adult Taiwanese women of Han Chinese race. Pressure pain threshold and tolerance were measured by an algometer and polymorphisms of the opioid receptor genes determined from blood samples. Our...
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