Exorphin

Exorphins are exogenous opioid peptides, distinguished from endorphins (or endogenous opioid peptides).

Exorphins include opioid food peptides and microbial opioid peptides and any other opioid peptide foreign to a host that have metabolic efficacy for that host.

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