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Common variants of catechol-O-methyltransferase influence patient-controlled analgesia usage and postoperative pain in patients undergoing total hysterectomy.
The pharmacogenomics journal - 1 Apr 2016
Tan E-C, Lim E C P, Ocampo C E, Allen J C, Sng B-L, Sia A T
Abstract excerpt
Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene polymorphisms and haplotypes have been associated with both experimental and clinical pain phenotypes. In this prospective study, we investigated the association of three common polymorphisms with experimentally induced pressure pain, postoperative pain and amount of self-administered morphine in 973 patients who underwent scheduled total hysterectomy. DNA extracted from...
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