Kappa-opioids produce significantly greater analgesia in women than in men

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1248-1250

  Gear, Robert W ^a   Miaskowski, Christine ^a   Gordon, Newton C ^a   Paul, Steven M ^a   Heller, Philip H ^b   Levine, Jon D ^a,c  

^a Box 0758 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTORPHANOL; BUTORPHANOL TARTRATE; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; NALBUPHINE; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL SURGERY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; BUTORPHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLAR, THIRD; NALBUPHINE; NARCOTICS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, KAPPA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029961190     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1196-1248     Document Type: Article

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