µ-Opioid Activity in Chronic TMD Pain Is Associated with COMT Polymorphism.
Nascimento TD, Yang N, Salman D, Jassar H, Kaciroti N, Bellile E, Danciu T, Koeppe R, Stohler C, Zubieta JK, Ellingrod V, DaSilva AF.
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J Dent Res. 2019 Nov;98(12):1324-1331. doi: 10.1177/0022034519871938. Epub 2019 Sep 6.
J Dent Res. 2019.
PMID: 31490699
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Twelve chronic temporomandibular disorder (TMD) patients and 12 healthy controls (HCs) were scanned using positron emission tomography (PET) with [(11)C]carfentanil, a selective radioligand for -opioid receptors (ORs). ...Together, the TMD diagnosis, COMT(158)Met substitut …
Twelve chronic temporomandibular disorder (TMD) patients and 12 healthy controls (HCs) were scanned using positron emission tomography (PET) …