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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropharmacology. 2020 Jun 10;177:108195. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2020.108195

Table 2.

Opioid receptor binding affinities for U-47700 and its N-desmethyl metabolites in post-mortem rat brain tissue.

Compound μ-opioid receptor Ki (nM) δ-opioid receptor Ki (nM) κ-opioid receptor Ki (nM) μ/δ ratio μ/κ ratio
U-47700 11.1±0.4 1220±82 287±24 110 26
N-Desmethyl-U-47700 206±11 >10,000 1730±196 >49 8
N,N-Didesmethyl-U-47700 4080±304 >10000 6770±814 >2 >2
Morphine 2.7±0.3 261±24 101±9 97 37

Data are expressed as mean±SEM for N=3 experiments performed in triplicate.