Non-addictive orally-active kappa opioid agonists for the treatment of peripheral pain in rats.
This article presents data supporting the analgesic properties of an orally available, peripherally-restricted, kappa-opioid agonist for peripheral pain. A potential out-patient pharmaceutical that acts as efficacious as morphine in alleviating peripheral pain, while failing to produce undesired CNS-mediated effects, could help reduce the current health care burden associated with prescription opioids.
PMID: 31103632 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: European Journal of Pharmacology - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Beck TC, Reichel CM, Helke KL, Bhadsavle SS, Dix TA Tags: Eur J Pharmacol Source Type: research
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