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Genetic polymorphisms and human sensitivity to opioid analgesics.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2010
Nishizawa Daisuke, Hayashida Masakazu, Nagashima Makoto, Koga Hisashi, Ikeda Kazutaka
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Opioid analgesics are commonly used for the treatment of acute as well as chronic, moderate to severe pain. Well-known, however, is the wide interindividual variability in sensitivity to opioids that exists, which has often been a critical problem in pain treatment. To date, only a limited number...
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