Links and Resources

NIDA - National Institutes on Drug Abuse, USA

NIH - National Institutes of Health, USA

Reprints of Interest:

• "Standard Binding and Functional Assays Related to Medications Development Division Testing for Potential Cocaine and Opiate Narcotic Treatment Medications"
  Toll L, Berzetei-Gurske IP, Polgar WE, Brandt SR, Adapa ID, Rodriguez L, Schwartz RW, Haggart D, O'Brien A, White A, Kennedy JM, Craymer K, Farrington L, Auh JS.
  SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
  
  NIDA Res Monogr. 1998 Mar;178:440-66.
  As suggested by Brian Cox, the above reprint has reference values for a number of opioid ligands in cloned human OP receptors:
  
  

• "Differential Antinociceptive Effects of Endomorphin-1 and Endomorphin-2 in the Mouse"
  Leon F. Tseng, Minoru Narita, Chiaki Suganuma, Hirokazu Mizoguchi, Masahiro Ohsawa, Hiroshi Nagase, and John P. Kampine. 
  
  J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2000; 292 576-583
  http://www.jpet.org/cgi/content/abstract/292/2/576
  
  

• "Agonist-dependent desensitization of the kappa opioid receptor by G protein receptor kinase and beta-arrestin"
  Appleyard SM, Celver J, Pineda V, Kovoor A, Wayman GA, Chavkin C.
  
  J Biol Chem 1999 Aug 20;274(34):23802-7
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=10446141&form=6&db=m&Dopt=b
  
  

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