The Opiate Receptors

1. You’ve Come a Long Way Baby!
Solomon H. Snyder

2. The Evolution of Concepts
W. R. Martin

3. Pharmacology of Opioid Drugs
Brian M. Cox

4. Opioid Receptors: The Early Years
Gavril W. Pasternak

5. Endogenous Opioids
Iryna Berezniuk, Lloyd D. Fricker

6. Molecular Biology of Mu Opioid Receptors
Ying-Xian Pan, Gavril W. Pasternak

7. Delta Opioid Receptors
Wendy Walwyn, Fatima Macho Sánchez-Simon, Raquel Rodriguez, Christopher J. Evans

8. Kappa Opioid Receptor Gene and the Regulatory Mechanisms of Its Protein Expression
Li-Na Wei, Horace H. Loh

9. Opioid Receptor Signal Transduction Mechanisms
Ping-Yee Law

10. Mu Opioid Receptor Mediated Analgesia and Reward
Howard L. Fields

11. Kappa Opioid Receptor Function
Julia C. Lemos, Charles Chavkin

12. Delta Opioid Receptor Function
Edita Navratilova, Victor J. Hruby, Frank Porreca

13. Genetic Studies of Opioid System Function in Mice
Michael A. Ansonoff, Ting Wen, John E. Pintar

14. Opioid Receptor Trafficking
Mark Zastrow

15. Opioid Receptor Dimerization
Raphael Rozenfeld, Ivone Gomes, Lakshmi A. Devi

16. Molecular Modulation of In Vivo Tolerance
Charles E. Inturrisi, Ann M. Gregus

17. Genetics of Opioid Actions
Jörn Lötsch, Jeffrey S. Mogil

Keywords: Biomedicine, Neurosciences