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I Charfi1, N Audet, H Bagheri Tudashki

  • 1Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada; Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.

British Journal of Pharmacology
|March 27, 2014
PubMed
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Keywords:
biasfunctional selectivityoperational modelregulationδ opioid receptor

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