Neuroendocrine implications of opioid therapy

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 89-92

  Cole, B Eliot ^a  

^a American Society of Pain Educators   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN; DIAMORPHINE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METHADONE; MORPHINE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; OPIATE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN;

AMENORRHEA; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DRUG TOLERANCE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADORELIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOGONADISM; IMPOTENCE; LIBIDO; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MUSCLE MASS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREMENOPAUSE; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SIDE EFFECT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WELLBEING;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS;

EID: 34047244586     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-007-0003-0     Document Type: Review

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