Goofball Polypharmacy.
Goofball Polypharmacy.
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傻瓜多药房。
DOI:
10.1124/jpet.123.001930
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发表时间:
2024
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通讯作者:
Cotten,JosephF
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Cotten,JosephF
1521-0103/388/2/241–243 $35.00 dx. doi. org/10.1124/jpet. 123.001930 THE JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS J Pharmacol Exp Ther 388: 241–243, Feburary 2024 Copyright© 2024 by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics depression. Heroin (diacetylmorphine), a prodrug, is rapidly converted to morphine, and although fentanyl’s clinical potency is approximately 100-fold greater than that of morphine, both fentanyl and morphine have similar opioid receptor affinity, which is germane to naloxone reversal (Volpe et al., 2011). Other clinically potent fentanyl analogs (eg, sufentanil or carfentanil) with higher receptor affinities may provide greater resistance to naloxone competitive antagonism or yield unique toxicities when coadministered with or in the presence of methamphetamine. Finally, the heavy averaging of the data by Hiranita et al.(2024) obscures some of the dynamic effects observed in the first seconds following drug administration. I, as well as others, suspect that some opioid overdose deaths may occur as a result of transient events such as airway closure or cardiac bradyarrhythmias just after drug administration. These vagus nerve–mediated events are likely initiated by opioid receptor activation on pulmonary nociceptive C-fibers, also known as J-receptors (Willette and Sapru, 1982; Miner et al., 2021).Whole-body plethysmography involves placing an entire animal in a closed chamber (Drorbaugh and Fenn, 1955). Upon animal inspiration, cool, dry chamber air is drawn into the lungs, where it is heated to body temperature and saturated with water vapor, causing a net increase in chamber pressure. Variations in the frequency and amplitude of chamber pressure, combined with knowledge of chamber temperature and humidity, are used to calculate breathing rate and tidal volume. The technique is useful in that the animal requires no restraints beyond that of the chamber and no anesthesia for positioning and it enables data collection on a continuous basis for a prolonged period of time, provided that the chamber is cleared of carbon dioxide, heat, and water vapor with fresh airflow. Plethysmography is limited, however, in that it fails to address the efficacy of breathing (ie, arterial blood oxygenation and carbon dioxide elimination) and does nothing to highlight the physiologic impact of efficiency differences between ventilatory modes (eg, rapid shallow vs. slow deep breathing). Alveolar ventilation and blood oxygenation are significantly impacted by the breathing pattern. In my opinion and as acknowledged by the authors, arterial blood gas analysis, which typically measures blood pH and blood oxygen, carbon dioxide, bicarbonate, and lactate content, is essential for understanding and interpreting breathing studies and a drug’s pharmacological impact on breathing and metabolism. For example, in the current study, d-methamphetamine, particularly at the highest doses (3.2 mg/kg iv) caused a marked (100%) and sustained (> 60-minute) increase in minute ventilation. Why? A parallel increase in metabolism (oxygen utilization and carbon dioxide production) is the likely reason since an increase in ventilation of this magnitude, without increased metabolism, would cause profound respiratory alkalosis (ie, hypocapnia). One can appreciate how opioid-induced hypoventilation under conditions of d-methamphetamine–induced hypermetabolism would be antagonistic and likely poorly tolerated. It would be similar to holding your breath while running, and its impact is best appreciated and quantified by arterial blood gas analysis. Of note, arterial blood gas studies in rats by …
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发表时间:
1981
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作者:
B. White;C. S. Nicoll
通讯作者:
C. S. Nicoll
影响因子:
6.4
作者:
Ruben,LN;Buenafe,A;Oliver,S;Malley,A;Barr,K;Lukas,D
通讯作者:
Lukas,D
DOI:
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发表时间:
1985
期刊:
Thymus
影响因子:
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作者:
Ruben,LN;James,HS;Clothier,RH;Barr,K;Balls,M
通讯作者:
Balls,M
影响因子:
4.3
作者:
Ruben,LN;Clothier,RH;Balls,M
通讯作者:
Balls,M
DOI:
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发表时间:
1983
期刊:
Thymus
影响因子:
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作者:
Ruben,LN;Buenafe,A;Seivert,D
通讯作者:
Seivert,D