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Influence of uridine diphosphate-glucuronyltransferase 2B7 (UGT2B7) variants on postoperative buprenorphine analgesia.
Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain - 1 Jan 2015
Sastre José A, Varela Gonzalo, López Mónica, Muriel Clemente, González-Sarmiento Rogelio
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BACKGROUND: Genetic factors are known to influence individual differences in pain and sensitivity to analgesics. Different genetic polymorphisms in opioid-metabolizing enzymes that can affect the analgesic response to opioids have been proposed. This study investigates a possible difference in the response to postoperative buprenorphine analgesia related to the presence of different isoforms (cytosine or thymine...
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