Sentences with phrase «mu opiate receptor»
Uhl and his colleagues, Ichiro Sora and Zaijie Wang, of Johns Hopkins University and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) zeroed in on the gene encoding the mu opiate receptor — sections of which they first identified a decade ago.
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PET scans have demonstrated that some individuals have twice as many mu opiate receptors in certain brain regions as others.
Knockout mice, which completely lacked the gene and so manufactured no mu opiate receptors, were all the more sensitive.
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The most popular «narcotic» drug for dogs, Tramadol, is a synthetic that has «opiate - like» mu - receptor properties and activity [8].
Buprenorphine, an opiate, is a mu receptor.