Unlike opioid drugs like morphine and fentanyl that travel throughout the body, the opioids your body produces are released in small quantities to specific locations.
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Opioids can cause death by slowing breathing to dangerously low levels, or stopping it altogether. Examining one area of the brain may eventually lead to safer painkillers.
A person dies of opioid overdose once every 13 minutes in the US. A researcher proposes a way using existing technology to remove the opioid target in people to prevent overdoses.
Scientists have taken atomic resolution snapshots of an opioid receptor interacting with a drug. Now they are using these images to design “biased” opioids that block pain without the dangerous side effects.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of Pharmacology, Oklahoma State University
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Assistant Professor at Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego
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PhD Candidate in Neurobiology at Salk Institute for Biological Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology, University of Arizona Health Sciences
