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Natural painkiller found in human spit

Compound in saliva could be more powerful than morphine.

A new painkilling substance has been discovered that is up to six times more potent than morphine when tested in rats — and it’s produced naturally by the human body. Natural painkillers are very rare, and researchers hope that this recent find might be harnessed as a clinical treatment.

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Posted by Mike Hopkin on November 13, 2006 10:00 PM |

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this article is so fantastic... i would really like to pass this and share this to my classmates..we're having this class sharing in our science class. i hope it would be okay if i use this mews.. chao

Posted by: chErrEy_cuTe | November 16, 2006 10:03 AM

Why restrict the full article to paying members when free reprints of the article are available for viewing all over the Internet, for example, on http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=2927 ?

Posted by: David Ledbetter | December 1, 2006 10:24 PM

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