MORPHINE-TOLERANCE - IS THERE EVIDENCE FOR A CONDITIONING MODEL
MORPHINE-TOLERANCE - IS THERE EVIDENCE FOR A CONDITIONING MODEL
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DOI:
10.1126/science.635595
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
MAYER, DJ
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作者:
HAYES, RL;MAYER, DJ
Siegel reports that a Pavlovian inter-phine administration from exposure to pretation can account for tolerance to the test procedures used to evaluate the analgesia produced by small doses of morphine analgesia. That is, when rats morphine (1). He shows that animals re-were tested in a novel environment to peatedly exposed to morphine paired determinewhethertheybecamerelativewith one environment and testsituation ly nontolerant, they were also tested show less of an analgesic response to with the analgesiometric device with morphine when tested in the presence of which they had no prior experience, those same cues than when tested in the thereby also preventing any manifestapresence ofdifferent cues. Thus, he con-tion of behavioral tolerance to the test cludes that the presence of stimuli re-situation. Similarly, when rats were test~ liably associated with systemic morphine ed in the same environment in which administration is crucial to the develop-they had previously received the drug in ment of tolerance to the analgesic effects order to determine if they were relatively of morphine. We believe that Siegel's ex-more tolerant, they were also tested with periments are inconclusive. the analgesiometric device with which Siegel did not distinguish adequately they had prior experience. This procebetween Pavlovian contingencies and dure maximized the chances of observthe possibly independent process of be-ing behavioral tolerance. Therefore, Siehavioral tolerance. The well-docu-gel's experimental design did not distinmented phenomenon ofbehavioral toler-guish between differences in analgesia ance, extensively studied by the" hot attributable either to changes in general plate" test (24), refers to the fact that environmental cues or to the presence or powetful interactions can occur between absence of prior experience with the test the administration of drugs and the test apparatus (that is, behavioral tolerance). situations used to evaluate drug effects. The experiment shows only that behav-Thus, prior experience in the test appa-ioral tolerance to the analgesic effect ratus is a significant determinant of the of morphine can develop after repeatamount oftolerance produced by certain ed testing with the paw pressure andrug regimens. For example, animals re-algesiometer as well as with the hot peatedly injected with morphine and plate. tested on the hot plate show a greater re- In order to provide support for the role duction in analgesia than animals inject-of Pavlovian contingencies in the develedwithequivalentdosesofmorphinebut opment of behavioral tolerance, one tested only once on the hot plate at the should show that identifiable conditioned end of the injection regimen. stimuli contribute to the reduced anal-Siegel argues that his work has extend-gesia resulting from repeated pairings of ed previous findings" by demonstrating morphine administration with the same that the display of tolerance is specific to test situation. One should, for example, the environment in which the drug has show that, in the same animals repeatbeen administered, and that'morphine edly tested on the hot plate, the presentolerant'rats, when assessed for the ef-tation ofone environmental cue associatfects of the narcotic in an environment ed with repeated morphine administraother than that in which they became tol-tions [that is, a conditioned stimulus or erant, evidence a relatively nontolerant (CS)(+)] results in a greater decrement response"(1). Yet, in that experiment he in morphine analgesia than the presentadid not distinguish exposure to the envi-tion of a different environmental cue asronmental cues associated with mor-sociatedwithrepeatedsalineadministra-