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A Review of the Role of Genetic Testing in Pain Medicine
2014-09-14
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Background: Pain clinicians have always been challenged by the variability of response to pain treatment. Differences in the degree of pain stimulation and pain sensitivity, weight and age differences, prior opioid use and tolerance, as well as the differences in bioavailability of various opioid formulations have been cited as causes for the wide variability in analgesia seen with opioids. Genetics may explain th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 63b014a4-8365-5a36-b630-bc0a1aa14e80
- DOI
- 10.36076/ppj.2014/17/425