Kappa Opioid Receptors Are New Target For Alcoholism Treatment:
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 10:31
in Health & Medicine
Mu Delta Kappa is a key brain receptor targets for opiates because the mu opioid receptor is the primary target for morphine and endogenous opioids like endorphin. The delta opioid receptor shows the highest affinity for endogenous enkephalins. The kappa opioid receptor (KOR) is very interesting, but the least understood of the opiate receptor family. read more