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Title: What opioid has the highest affinity for mu-opioid receptors?
Post by: smont on Feb 6, 2013
Which one has the greatest selective activity on ?-opioid receptors in the human brain?


Title: What opioid has the highest affinity for mu-opioid receptors?
Post by: lemonjello on Feb 6, 2013
synthetiv fentanly derivatives. Carfentanil is 10000 times more potent than morphine. It is used to tranqualise large animals


Title: What opioid has the highest affinity for mu-opioid receptors?
Post by: Askelto2 on Feb 6, 2013
The most potent mu opioid receptor agonist is an isomer of ohmefentanyl.  It is approx. 18,000 times more potent than morphine and is not used in humans.  Sufentanil is the most potent mu agonist used in humans and is used primarily during surgery.