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1. Opioid analgesics

   Many opiod analgesics are available to the prescriber.

   smaxwell - 10/10/2014 - 7:51pm

2. Peptides

   Endogenous peptides and proteins include well characterized families of neuropeptide transmitters, neuropeptide modulators, hormones, and fragments of functional proteins, which are essential in many biological processes. The peptides exert potent biological actions in virtually all systems in the body (see figure for examples).

    

   

   media - 23/05/2014 - 10:23am

3. Opioid misuse

   Opioid drugs (e.g. morphine) are derived from a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of the Asian opium poppy plant. 

   smaxwell - 21/06/2016 - 10:55am

4. Introduction to the dose-response relationship

   When the relation between drug dose (X-axis) and drug response (Y-axis) is plotted on a base 10 logarithmic scale, this produces a sigmoidal dose–response curve (Fig A). This representation is more useful than a linear plot because it expands the dose scale in the region where drug response is changing rapidly and compresses the scale at higher doses where large changes have little effect on response.

   efaccena - 19/11/2015 - 9:43am