Identification of κ‐ and δ‐opioid receptor transcripts in immune cells

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To investigate the role of opioids as direct modulators of the immune response, we have searched for expression of the recently cloned delta, mu and kappa opioid receptors in immune cells. We have devised a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction strategy which specifically detects a region spanning putative transmembrane regions 2 to 7 for each transcript in both human and mouse immune cells. In human...

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