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The painless synergism of aspirin and opium

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Figure 1: Schematic of a nerve terminal that releases GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid) in the midbrain periaqueductal grey.

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Williams, J. The painless synergism of aspirin and opium. Nature 390, 557–559 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/37486

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