Unlike opioid drugs like morphine and fentanyl that travel throughout the body, the opioids your body produces are released in small quantities to specific locations.
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How is pain measured? A person’s pain is what they say it is.
Many venoms contain bioactive components that are so stable to the body’s enzymes and selective of their biological target that they’re increasingly being used as novel research tools.
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Professor & Director, Centre for Pain Research, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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