Article
Codeine in post-operative pain. Study of the influence of sparteine phenotype and serum concentrations of morphine and morphine-6-glucuronide.
European journal of clinical pharmacology - 1 Aug 1998
Poulsen L, Riishede L, Brøsen K, Clemensen S, Sindrup S H
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Within the past decade, human experimental pain studies have supported the 50-year-old hypothesis that codeine is a prodrug, which has to be converted to morphine to exert an analgesic effect. This study aimed at evaluating the impact of sparteine phenotype and serum concentrations of...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Analgesics, Opioid
- Codeine
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Morphine
- Morphine Derivatives
- Pain, Postoperative
