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Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2004
▪ Abstract Opioid receptors belong to the large superfamily of seven transmembrane-spanning (7TM) G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). As a class, GPCRs are of fundamental physiological importance mediating the actions of the majority of known neurotransmitters and hormones. Opioid receptors are particularly intriguing members of this receptor family.
Waldhoer, Maria +2 more
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▪ Abstract Opioid receptors belong to the large superfamily of seven transmembrane-spanning (7TM) G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). As a class, GPCRs are of fundamental physiological importance mediating the actions of the majority of known neurotransmitters and hormones. Opioid receptors are particularly intriguing members of this receptor family.
Waldhoer, Maria +2 more
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Opioid Receptors and their Ligands
Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 2004This review gives a historical perspective, summarizing approximately 25 years of research on opioids. The "typical" opioid peptides produced in the brain, "atypical" opioids encrypted in milk protein or hemoglobin sequences, and extremely potent and selective opioids of amphibian origin are described.
Anna, Janecka +2 more
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Opioid receptor polymorphismsand opioid abuse
Pharmacogenomics, 2002The sequencing of the human genome is only the first step. The next step is to determine the function of these genes and in particular, how alterations in specific genes lead to major human disorders. Many laboratories are now focusing on identifying and characterizing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), to determine which correlate in frequency ...
Nancy M, Lee, Andrew P, Smith
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Opioids and Opioid Receptors in Peripheral Tissues
Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1987Opioid peptides belonging to the enkephalin, beta-endorphin or dynorphin family, acting on specific opiate receptors may be found in peripheral tissues. Enkephalins have a widespread peripheral distribution, while beta-endorphin and dynorphin may be found locally in the enteric nervous system.
T, Hedner, J, Cassuto
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Opioids, opioid receptors, and the immune response
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2001It is now clear that opioid receptors participate in the function of the cells of the immune system, and evidence suggests that opioids modulate both innate and acquired immune responses. We review literature here which establishes that mu-, kappa-, and delta-opioid compounds alter resistance to a variety of infectious agents, including the Human ...
L, McCarthy +4 more
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A Biased View of μ-Opioid Receptors?
Molecular Pharmacology, 2019The field of biased agonism has grown substantially in recent years and the μ-opioid receptor has been one of the most intensively studied receptor targets for developing biased agonists.
Alexandra E. Conibear, E. Kelly
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The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1994
The genomic mode of action is believed to represent the predominant effect of a steroid hormone. Recently, however, rapidly manifesting, non-genomic effects have also been observed. These are mediated mostly by allosteric interaction of a steroid with heterologous target structures such as membrane receptors, a prototype example being the GABAA.
S, Schwarz, P, Pohl
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The genomic mode of action is believed to represent the predominant effect of a steroid hormone. Recently, however, rapidly manifesting, non-genomic effects have also been observed. These are mediated mostly by allosteric interaction of a steroid with heterologous target structures such as membrane receptors, a prototype example being the GABAA.
S, Schwarz, P, Pohl
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Opioid Peptides and their Receptors
1982The three agonists, methionine-enkephalin, leucine-enkephalin and beta-endorphin have different pharmacological patterns. It may be of particular importance that they vary in their relative affinities to the enkephalin and naltrexone binding sites in the brain; the former are probably related to delta-receptors prevalent in the mouse vas deferens and ...
H.W. Kosterlitz +2 more
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2021
Opioid receptors, beyond their involvement in pain transmission, play a number of relevant physiological roles in the central nervous system and in peripheral organs. Opioid receptors can be considered a crossroads where endogenous opioid peptides and foreign opioids and opiates meet the cell and transmit their messages to another vast array of ...
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Opioid receptors, beyond their involvement in pain transmission, play a number of relevant physiological roles in the central nervous system and in peripheral organs. Opioid receptors can be considered a crossroads where endogenous opioid peptides and foreign opioids and opiates meet the cell and transmit their messages to another vast array of ...
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Opioid receptors and endogenous opioid peptides
Medicinal Research Reviews, 1991The field to be reviewed is now 16 years old and is based on knowledge dating back centuries. It is therefore evident that an exhaustive review is impossible. The author plans to discuss areas likely to be of interest to the readers of this journal.
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