DEVELOPMENT OF TOLERANCE TO THE PROLACTIN-RELEASING ACTION OF MORPHINE AND ITS MODULATION BY HYPOTHALAMIC DOPAMINE
DEVELOPMENT OF TOLERANCE TO THE PROLACTIN-RELEASING ACTION OF MORPHINE AND ITS MODULATION BY HYPOTHALAMIC DOPAMINE
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DOI:
10.1210/endo-106-5-1469
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
FANG, VS
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作者:
DEYO, SN;SWIFT, RM;FANG, VS
Exogenous and endogenous opioids stimulate PRL [prolactin] release by the anterior pituitary. Morphine and the opioid peptides [D-Ala2, D-Leu5]enkephalin and .beta.-endorphin decreased dopamine (DA) release by nerve terminals in the median eminence. The ability of morphine sulfate (MS) to decrease DA turnover in the median eminence and increase plasma PRL concentrations in rats made tolerant to opioids by chronic treatment with MS was examined. In naive rats, MS (10 mg/kg, s.c.) caused a mean increase in serum PRL of 79 ng/ml. After treatment with increasing MS doses for 4 days, the same MS dose caused an increase in only 18 ng/ml, indicating that tolerance to the PRL-releasing action of MS occurred. In the same animals, tolerance to the ability of MS to slow DA turnover in the median eminence also occurred, as demonstrated by an attenuation of the action of MS to decrease median eminence DA turnover. MS and endogenous opioids apparently increase the rate of PRL release from the adenohypophysis by slowing DA release from the median eminence. This, in turn, results in a decrease in the inhibitory tone exerted on pituitary lactotropic cells and, consequently, a greater rate of PRL release.