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Answer for the clue "An endorphin having opiate qualities ", 10 letters:
enkephalin

Word definitions for enkephalin in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
An enkephalin is a pentapeptide involved in regulating nociception in the body. The enkephalins are termed endogenous ligands , as they are internally derived and bind to the body's opioid receptors. Discovered in 1975, two forms of enkephalin were discovered, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biochemistry English) Any of a group of pentapeptide endorphins that have opiate-like effects

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere

Usage examples of enkephalin.

But I could no more rejoice in my escape, now, than I could have felt suicidally bad at the height of my enkephalin bliss.

Thanks to her medical background, she knew that Enkephalin was a substance similar to morphine that could be found in the brain and was thought to help control pain response.

Then she saw his glassy look, like a dazer, high on a self-induced enkephalin rush.

In fact, he felt great, pumped, he knew, full of endorphins and enkephalins and gods knew what other wonderful chems.

The best-known of these peptides are those sometimes described as the body's natural pain-killers, the morphine-like family of the opioids, such as enkephalin and endorphin.

You engineer a retrovirus that makes a minor alteration to your enkephalin receptor's tertiary structure, thus changing it's substrate affinity.