1. Analgesic effect of endomorphin-1.
- Author
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Li ZH, Shan LD, Jiang XH, Guo SY, Yu GD, Hisamitsu T, and Yin QZ
- Subjects
- Analgesics, Opioid therapeutic use, Animals, Arthritis, Experimental complications, Arthritis, Experimental physiopathology, Drug Tolerance, Male, Mice, Oligopeptides therapeutic use, Pain etiology, Pain Measurement, Pain Threshold drug effects, Rats, Receptors, Opioid, mu antagonists & inhibitors, Receptors, Opioid, mu metabolism, Analgesics, Opioid pharmacology, Nociceptors drug effects, Oligopeptides pharmacology, Pain drug therapy
- Abstract
Aim: To study the analgesic effect of endomorphin-1 (EM-1)., Methods: The experiment was performed in rats and mice to study the analgesic effect of intraperitoneal (ip) injection of EM-1 with tail stimulation-vocalization test, writhing test, adjuvant arthritis, and neuropathic pain model and to compare it with the analgesic effects produced by intracerebroventricular (icv) and intrathecal (it) administrations., Results: 1) EM-1 raised the pain threshold dose-dependently in tail stimulation-vocalization test in rats and inhibited the writhing responses induced by ip acetic acid in mice. EM-1 also decreased the hyperalgesia in both adjuvant arthritis and neuropathic pain model. 2) The analgesic effect induced by central (icv and it) administration of EM-1 was faster and more powerful than that induced by peripheral (ip) administration. 3) The analgesic effect of EM-1 was reversed by naloxone (opioid receptor antagonist), as well as by cyprodime (mu-opioid receptor selective antagonist). Repeated administrations of EM-1 induced tolerance., Conclusion: EM-1 had a definite analgesic effect and the analgesic effect of EM-1 was mediated by central mu-opioid receptor.
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- 2001