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Naloxone can act as an analgesic agent without measurable chronic side effects in mice with a mutant mu-opioid receptor expressed in different sites of pain pathway.
Synapse (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Aug 2012
Chou Shu-Husan, Kao Jen-Hsin, Tao Pao-Luh, Law Ping-Yee, Loh Horace H
Abstract excerpt
Midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) and spinal cord dorsal horn are major action sites of opioid analgesics in the pain pathway. Our previous study has shown that opioid antagonists activate MORS196A-CSTA (a mutant of mu-opioid receptor) as full agonists in vitro cell models and naloxone showed antinociceptive effects after the expression of MORS196A-CSTA in the spinal cord in mice. The purpose of this study is to...
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