| Literature DB >> 28935293 |
H C Stephen Chan1, Dillon McCarthy2, Jianing Li2, Krzysztof Palczewski3, Shuguang Yuan4.
Abstract
Pain is both a major clinical and economic problem, affecting more people than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined. While a variety of prescribed or over-the-counter (OTC) medications are available for pain management, opioid medications, especially those acting on the μ-opioid receptor (μOR) and related pathways, have proven to be the most effective, despite some serious side effects including respiration depression, pruritus, dependence, and constipation. It is therefore imperative that both academia and industry develop novel μOR analgesics which retain their opioid analgesic properties but with fewer or no adverse effects. In this review we outline recent progress towards the discovery of safer opioid analgesics.Entities:
Keywords: GPCR; computational biology; drug discovery; opioid receptor; safer painkiller
Mesh:
Substances:
Year: 2017 PMID: 28935293 PMCID: PMC5690544 DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2017.08.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Pharmacol Sci ISSN: 0165-6147 Impact factor: 14.819