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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 3.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2008 Jun;103(6):1048–1050. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02209.x

Table 1.

Central nervous system receptor binding data for mitragynine.

Percentage inhibition of radioligand binding by mitragynine at selected receptor systems
Adenosine A2A: 65.66
Adrenergic (Alpha 2): 61.92
Dopamine D2s 54.22
Opioid, mu 89.52
Opioid, kappa 90.21
Opioid, delta 7.00
Serotonin, 5HT2C 58.77
Serotonin, 5HT7 64.41
Dissociation constants for opioid receptor binding
Mu receptor: 204 ± 26 nM
Delta receptor: 2250 ± 120 nM
Kappa receptor: 455 ± 47 nM