"Based upon papers ... from the technical review on the medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology of opioid peptides and the opiates which took place on September 4-6, 1984, at Bethesda, Maryland"--Page iv. "Printed 1986"--Page 4 of cover. Shipping list no.: 1986-751-P. Includes bibliographical references.

Frontiers of research in the medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology of opioid peptides / Rao S. Rapaka -- Synthesis of opioid peptide analogs / John M. Stewart -- Structure-activity relationships of opioid peptides / J.S. Morley and A.S. Dutta -- Design principles : enkephalins with predictable mu/delta receptor specificity / Yasuyuki Shimohigashi -- Structure-activity relationship and pharmacology of the highly selective u-opioid agonist, morphiceptin / Kwen-Jen Chang -- Dermorphin : autonomic pharmacology and structure-activity relationships / Giora Feuerstein -- Design of conformationally constrained cyclic peptides with high delta and mu opioid receptor specificities / Victor J. Hruby -- Dehydro and cyclopropyl amino acids and peptides / Charles H. Stammer -- Affinity labels as probes for opioid receptor types and subtypes / Phillip S. Portoghese and A.E. Takemori -- Peptide conformation and biological activity : a general review with examples of approaches relevant to opioid peptide function / Dan W. Urry -- Opioid peptides : analysis of specificity and multiple binding modes through computer-aided drug design and structure-activity studies / Raoul D. Nelson [and others] -- Mechanistic structure-activity studies of peptide and nonpeptide flexible opioids : an interdisciplinary approach / Gilda H. Loew [and others] -- Conformations of opioid peptides as determined by nuclear magnetic resonance and related spectroscopies / M. Abu Khaled -- Conformational analysis of opioid peptides and the use of conformational restriction in the design of selective analogs / Peter W. Schiller -- Stereochemically constrained enkephalin analogs containing x-aminoisobutyric acid and 1-amino- cyclopentane-1-carbolylic acid / Raghuvansh Kishore and Padmanabhan Balaram -- Enkephalin conformation in solution : a perspective from vibrational spectroscopic studies / V. Renugopalakrishnan [and others] -- Conformational features of the opioid peptides in the solid state : a review of x-ray crystallographic research / Arthur Camerman and Norman Camerman -- The search for nonaddicting strong analgesics : hopes and frustrations / Sydney Archer.