Title : The μ-opioid receptor and treatment response to naltrexone.

Pub. Date : 2013 Jul-Aug

PMID : 23543091






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1 A single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) within the OPRM1 gene, A118G, leading to an amino acid change (Asn40Asp) in the extracellular portion of the receptor, has been implicated in alcoholism as well as in drug addiction, pain sensitivity and stress response, and in animal and human studies relates to the alcohol-dependent phenotype as well as to the treatment response to the micro-opioid antagonist naltrexone. Alcohols opioid receptor mu 1 Homo sapiens