Insights into opioid action in the intestinal tract

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 103-115

  De Luca, Anthony ^a   Coupar, Ian M ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

antidiarrhoeal; fluid secretion; motility; opioids

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE RECEPTOR; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; DIFENOXIN; LOPERAMIDE; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG MECHANISM; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0029940621     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0163-7258(95)02053-5     Document Type: Review

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