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It has been reported that stimulation of δ opioid receptors can cause inhibition of dopamine release in striatal pathways, resulting in muscular rigidity [ 19 ] . The present report shows that although fentanyl has low affinity and low potency at δ opioid receptor, it is highly efficacious at these receptors.
In vivo , fentanyl is a strong analgesic agent in pharmacological doses due to its interaction with μ opioid receptors [ 19 ] . However, at higher toxic doses it shows general opioid toxicity symptoms in addition to muscular rigidity, which are reversible by naloxone.
Is it possible that he completely misunderstood what Brian Arthur was saying--that the whole business about the seminar at Harvard where nobody would accept increasing returns, about the lonely struggle of Arthur in the face of ideological rigidity, even the quotation from Arthur about economists being unwilling to consider the possibility of imperfect markets because of the Cold War (give me a break!)
Whatever the reason that Arthur had trouble getting his own paper published, ideological rigidity had nothing to do with it.
Cross-links between these peptides hold together the glycan chains and give the cell wall its characteristic rigidity.