作者: Jana Ninković , Sabita Roy
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-0888-8_6
关键词: Bioinformatics 、 Opioid receptor 、 Endogeny 、 Receptor 、 Immune system 、 Opioid 、 Medicine 、 Endogenous opioid 、 Chronic pain 、 Opioid peptide
摘要: Opioid analgesics have been the foundation of human pain management for centuries. In spite their many debilitating side effects, prescription opioids remain a gold standard treatment chronic pain. The body naturally produces its own, endogenous opiate-like substances in order to modulate mechanisms. Endogenous mediate our reactions painful stimuli by binding opioid receptors which are widely distributed throughout most tissues and organ systems.