Abstract
Opioid receptors are distributed through the entire body primarily not to act with injected morphine but to act with endogenous substances which have nociceptive stimuli modulating activity. Those endogenous drugs belong to the group of about 30 neuropeptides, whose members are, among others, endorphins and substance P.
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De Castro, J., Meynadier, J., Zenz, M. (1991). Micropharmacology of antinociceptive substances in the spinal cord. In: Regional Opioid Analgesia. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2321-8_4
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