UArizona Health Sciences Researchers Identify Potential Pathway to Make Opioids Safer, More Effective (IMAGE)

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UArizona Health Sciences Researchers Identify Potential Pathway to Make Opioids Safer, More Effective

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From left: Graduating doctoral student David Duron, PhD, and his faculty mentor John Streicher, PhD, an assistant professor in the College of Medicine - Tucson Department of Pharmacology, found that inhibiting a key protein in signaling pathways in the spinal cord enhances the efficacy and presumably decreases the side effects of opioid therapy.

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University of Arizona Health Sciences/Noelle Haro-Gomez

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