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Buprenorphine

"Buprenorphine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A derivative of the opioid alkaloid THEBAINE that is a more potent and longer lasting analgesic than MORPHINE. It appears to act as a partial agonist at mu and kappa opioid receptors and as an antagonist at delta receptors. The lack of delta-agonist activity has been suggested to account for the observation that buprenorphine tolerance may not develop with chronic use.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Buprenorphine" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Buprenorphine" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 332 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 48 publications in 2023
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