Nature Medicine
3, 831 - 832 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0897-831
Pain killers of the immune systemBurt Sharp1
& Tony Yakshz2
1Institute for Brain and Immune Disorders Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404, USA
2Anesthesiology Research Laboratories University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA T lymphocytes produce opioid immunopeptides that control pain at sites of inflammation
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