STUDIES ON THE ANTI-NOCICEPTIVE ACTION OF ALPHA-AGONIST DRUGS AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH OPIOID MECHANISMS
STUDIES ON THE ANTI-NOCICEPTIVE ACTION OF ALPHA-AGONIST DRUGS AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH OPIOID MECHANISMS
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1476-5381.1983.tb10504.x
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
7.3
通讯作者:
STARR, J
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作者:
BENTLEY, GA;NEWTON, SH;STARR, J
A modified abdominal constriction test, whereby the drugs used are injected i.p. when the writhing response is maximal, was used to study the antinociceptive activity of various sympathomimetic drugs. Of those tested, clonidine was the most potent, with an ID50 value in the nmol range. (.sbd.)-Isoprenaline, (.sbd.)-adrenaline [epinephrine] and (.sbd.)-noradrenaline [norepinephrine] were only a little less potent. Phenylephrine, the least potent, had only about 1/60 of the activity of clonidine. The antinociceptive action may occur within the peritoneum, since it was apparent almost immediately after the drugs were injected and was produced by doses far smaller than were effective by the s.c. route. .alpha.-Adrenoceptors appear to be involved in the reaction, since noradrenaline showed stereospecificity, and the .alpha.-adrenoceptor antagonists phentolamine and piperoxan both shifted the dose-response curves of the .alpha.-adrenoceptor agonist drugs to the right, usually parallel to the control curves. The high antinociceptive potency of clonidine and oxymetazoline, indicate the importance of .alpha.2-adrenoceptors and piperoxan was a more effective antagonist than phentolamine. The moderate potency of phenylephrine suggests that .alpha.1-adrenoceptors may also be involved, although the selective .alpha.1-antagonist, prazosin, did not antagonize noradrenaline and had antinociceptive activity of its own. .beta.-Adrenoceptors may be involved in the antinociceptive response, since propranalol antagonized the effect of isoprenaline, but not that of clonidine. Piperoxan was a very effective antagonist of morphine, while phentolamine had a weaker action. Naloxone had little action against the .alpha.-adrenoceptor agonists. Mice pretreated with clonidine or oxymetazoline but not noradrenaline showed a very great cross-tolerance to morphine. Morphine pretreatment caused marked desensitization of itself, but little cross-tolerance to clonidine or oxymetazoline. Evidently sensory nerves in the mouse peritoneum have .alpha.2- and .beta.-adrenoceptors on their terminals, and possibly .alpha.1-receptors also. When activated by the appropriate agonists they may depress the generation of pain impulses. There is an interaction between the .alpha.-adrenoceptors and opioid receptors in the mouse peritoneum.