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Effects of opioid receptor stimulation and blockade on touch pleasantness: a double-blind randomised trial

The μ-opioid receptor (MOR) system has long been thought to underpin the rewarding properties of pleasant touch. Numerous non-human animal studies implicate MORs in social behaviours involving touch, but little is currently known about MOR involvement in human touch reward. Here, we employed a bi-di...

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Autores principales: Løseth, Guro E, Eikemo, Marie, Leknes, Siri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6523440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30951167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz022