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Research Article

A Subclassification of Multiple Opiate Receptors by Means of Selective Tolerance Development

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Pages 199-214 | Published online: 26 Sep 2008
 

Abstract

The chronic activation of opiate receptors results in the development of tolerance. On theoretical grounds, the appearance of cross-tolerance between different opioids should imply that these compounds exhibit an identical pattern on receptor activation. Tests with isolated tissue preparations, e.g. the guinea-pig ileum, made highly tolerant in vivo to the μ-agonist morphine proved that these were of almost unchanged sensitivity to different types of receptor agonists such as K-ago-nists. Thus, the ability to selectively induce toleraance on particular types of opiate receptors represents a reliable tool for the differentiation and characterization of multiple opiate receptors. Moreover, this technique facilitated the demonstration of subtypes of the already known opiate receptors.

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