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Oxycodone recycling: a novel hypothesis of opioid tolerance development in humans.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Sept 2014
Linares Oscar A, Fudin Jeffrey, Schiesser William E, Linares Annemarie Daly, Boston Raymond C
Abstract excerpt
We hypothesize that oxycodone (OC) recycling promotes sustained synaptic OC content, which prolongs OC's exposure to local μ-opioid receptors (μORs). In that way, OC recycling gives rise to OC tolerance in humans. To pilot test our hypothesis, we developed a whole-body OC mass transport tolerance recovery model. The model derived quantifiable measure of tolerance is TΩ. TΩ estimates OC's tolerance recovery in...
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