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Gender Studies
Pain Drug Reveals What Most Already Know: Men's and Women's Brains Are Simply Different
March 31st, 2000
Researchers led by University of California, San Francisco, scientists are reporting that an experimental pain drug known as a kappa-opioid brings pain relief to female rats but not males, a finding that adds weight to a recent UCSF clinical finding, and highlights, they say, the need to evaluate drugs by gender. Traditionally, kappa-opioids have been dismissed as ineffective analgesics in humans, though the drugs have shown mixed results in animal studies, depending on how they have been administered. The finding, published in the March 2000 issue of Pain, may help to resolve the controversy about the drug's effectiveness, the researchers...
Source: Drug Week (2000-03-31)
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