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Immediate and Persistent Effects of Salvinorin A on the Kappa Opioid Receptor in Rodents, Monitored In Vivo with PET
- Source :
- Neuropsychopharmacology. 40:2865-2872
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- Monitoring changes in opioid receptor binding with positron emission tomography (PET) could lead to a better understanding of tolerance and addiction because altered opioid receptor dynamics following agonist exposure has been linked to tolerance mechanisms. We have studied changes in kappa opioid receptor (KOR) binding availability in vivo with PET following kappa opioid agonist administration. Male Sprague-Dawley rats (n=31) were anesthetized and treated with the (KOR) agonist salvinorin A (0.01-1.8 mg/kg, i.v.) before administration of the KOR selective radiotracer [(11)C]GR103545. When salvinorin A was administered 1 min prior to injection of the radiotracer, [(11)C]GR103545 binding potential (BPND) was decreased in a dose-dependent manner, indicating receptor binding competition. In addition, the unique pharmacokinetics of salvinorin A (half-life ~8 min in non-human primates) allowed us to study the residual impact on KOR after the drug had eliminated from the brain. Salvinorin A was administered up to 5 h prior to [(11)C]GR103545, and the changes in BPND were compared with baseline, 2.5 h, 1 h, and 1 min pretreatment times. At lower doses (0.18 mg/kg and 0.32 mg/kg) we observed no prolonged effect on KOR binding but at 0.60 mg/kg salvinorin A induced a sustained decrease in KOR binding (BPND decreased by 40-49%) which persisted up to 2.5 h post administration, long after salvinorin A had been eliminated from the brain. These data point towards an agonist-induced adaptive response by KOR, the dynamics of which have not been previously studied in vivo with PET.
- Subjects :
- Male
Agonist
Pyrrolidines
medicine.drug_class
Pharmacology
Toxicology
Binding, Competitive
κ-opioid receptor
Piperazines
Diterpenes, Clerodane
Time
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemistry.chemical_compound
Pharmacokinetics
In vivo
Opioid receptor
Opioid Receptor Binding
medicine
Animals
Pharmacology (medical)
Carbon Radioisotopes
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Chemistry
Receptors, Opioid, kappa
Brain
Binding potential
Salvinorin A
Analgesics, Opioid
Psychiatry and Mental health
Opioid
Positron-Emission Tomography
Original Article
Radiopharmaceuticals
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1740634X and 0893133X
- Volume :
- 40
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neuropsychopharmacology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4a941ed9b916bce70c8f47abd8eeb2e1