MaineHealth, UNE collaborate on research describing effects of opioids on bone formation

Senior author Katherine Motyl, Ph.D., MHIR faculty scientist — along with her team of trainees, including UNE alum Audrie Langlais, B.S. ’18 (Biochemistry) — and UNE researchers Karen Houseknecht, Ph.D., associate provost for Research and Scholarship; Tamara King, Ph.D., professor of physiology; and Deborah Barlow, B.S., analytical chemist in the Houseknecht Lab, recently published their paper, “Sustained morphine delivery suppresses bone formation and alters metabolic and circulating miRNA profiles in male C57BL/6J mice,” in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (JBMR) in late August.

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