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Preferred term

Opioid Peptides  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Opiate Peptides
  • Opioid Peptide
  • Peptide, Opioid
  • Peptides, Opiate

Scope note

  • The endogenous peptides with opiate-like activity. The three major classes currently recognized are the ENKEPHALINS, the DYNORPHINS, and the ENDORPHINS. Each of these families derives from different precursors, proenkephalin, prodynorphin, and PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN, respectively. There are also at least three classes of OPIOID RECEPTORS, but the peptide families do not map to the receptors in a simple way.

History note

  • 95; OPIOID PEPTIDES was see ENDORPHINS 1982-94; OPIATES, ENDOGENOUS was see ENDORPHINS 1980-94

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018847

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