High and low affinity opioid binding sites: Relationship to mu and delta sites

Endogenous opioid peptides: multiple agonists and receptors

John A.H. Lord, Angela A. Waterfield, John Hughes et al. · Nature · 1977 · 2.5K citations

Medicine, Pharmacology, Neuroendocrinology +9

Opiate Receptor: Demonstration in Nervous Tissue

Candace B. Pert, Solomon H. Snyder · Science · 1973 · 2.4K citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +10

Multiple opiate receptors. Enkephalins and morphine bind to receptors of different specificity.

K J Chang, Pedro Cuatrecasas · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1979 · 684 citations · Full text

Medicine, Pharmacology, Neuropharmacology +11

Characteristics of the “Receptor” for Narcotic Analgesics in Synaptic Plasma Membrane Fraction from Rat Brain

Lars Terenius · Acta Pharmacologica et Toxicologica · 1973 · 436 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +17

Identification of novel high affinity opiate receptor binding in rat brain

Gavril W. Pasternak, Solomon H. Snyder · Nature · 1975 · 224 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +10