Roles of Endogenous Opioid Peptides in Modulation of Nocifensive Response to Formalin

Wu, Hsiang‐En; Hung, Kuei-chun; Mizoguchi, Hirokazu; Nagase, Hiroshi; Tseng, Leon F.

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“…MOR Ϫ/Ϫ mice showed a similar degree of nocifensive behavior as wild-type mice during the first phase of Formalin-induced pain, which primarily results from a direct activation of nociceptive afferents (Zhao et al, 2003). Furthermore, neither naloxone (intraperitoneally) nor CTOP (D-Phe-Cys-Tyr-D-Trp-Orn-ThrPen-Thr-NH 2 ) (intrathecally) affected the initiation and magnitude of pain behavior in this phase (Wu et al, 2002;Zhao et al, 2003). Intense noxious drive associated with mustard-oil application or intraplantar Formalin injection may trigger release of opioids and activate MOR in the dorsal horn.…”

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Windup in Dorsal Horn Neurons Is Modulated by Endogenous Spinal μ-Opioid Mechanisms

Guan¹,

Borzan²,

Meyer³

et al. 2006

J. Neurosci.

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Windup in Dorsal Horn Neurons Is Modulated by Endogenous Spinal μ-Opioid Mechanisms

Guan¹,

Borzan²,

Meyer³

et al. 2006

J. Neurosci.

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“…The doses of antiserum against Dyn were 50 to 300 g and 200 g for other antisera. The doses of antisera used have been shown previously to be sufficient for their specific effects (Tseng and Huang, 1992;Xu and Tseng, 1997;Ohsawa et al, 2001;Wu et al, 2002a). Finally, 5) determine whether the EM-2-induced antianalgesia is selective against opioid -agonists or is generalized to ␦-and -agonists.…”

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“…Mice were pretreated i.t. with the selective opioid antagonist 3-methoxynaltrexone (6.4 pmol) 25 min (Sakurada et al, 2000), ␦-opioid receptor antagonist naltrindole (NTI, 11.1 nmol) 10 min (Mizoguchi et al, 1995;Wu et al, 2002a), -opioid receptor antagonist nor-BNI (6.6 nmol) 24 h Ohsawa et al, 2001), nonselective opioid-receptor antagonist naloxone (5.5-55 pmol) 10 min, or NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 (10 nmol) 20 min (Gardell et al, 2002) before i.t. injection of EM-2 (1.75 nmol).…”

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“…The DAMGO was dissolved in 0.9% saline containing 0.01% of Triton X-100 and deltorphin II was dissolved in 0.9% saline containing 1% dimethyl sulfoxide. The antiserum against dynorphin A(1-17), ␤-endorphin, [Leu 5 ]-enkephalin, [Met 5 ]-enkephalin, and CCK-8s were produced by immunization of male New Zealand White rabbits according to the method described in previous publications, and the potencies and cross-immunoreactivity of these antisera have been characterized (Tseng and Huang, 1992;Tseng and Collin, 1993;Wu et al, 2002a).…”

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Dynorphinergic Mechanism Mediating Endomorphin-2-Induced Antianalgesia in the Mouse Spinal Cord

Sun²,

Darpolar³

et al. 2003

The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

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We have previously demonstrated that both endomorphin-1 (EM-1) and endomorphin-2 (EM-2) at high doses (1.75-35 nmol) given intrathecally (i.t.) or intracerebroventricularly produce antinociception by stimulation of -opioid receptors. Now, we report that EM-2 at small doses (0.05-1.75 nmol), which injected alone did not produce antinociception, produces antianalgesia against opioid agonist-induced antinociception. The tail-flick (TF) response was used to test the antinociception in male CD-1 mice. Intrathecal pretreatment with EM-2 (0.02-1.75 nmol) 45 min before i.t. morphine (3.0 nmol) injection dose dependently attenuated morphine-induced TF inhibition. On the other hand, a similar dose of EM-1 (1.64 nmol) failed to produce any antianalgesic effect. The EM-2 (1.75 nmol)-produced anti-analgesia against morphine-induced TF inhibition was blocked by i.t. pretreatment with the -opioid antagonist naloxone or 3-methoxynaltrexone, but not ␦-opioid receptor antagonist naltrindole, -opioid receptor antagonist nor-binal- Endogenous opioid tetrapeptides endomorphin-1 (EM-1) and endomorphin-2 (EM-2) have been found to be highly selective for -opioid receptors (Zadina et al., 1997). Both EM-1 and EM-2 potently compete with -opioid receptor binding with no appreciable affinity with ␦-and -opioid receptors and selectively activate -opioid receptor-mediated G-proteins with [35 S]guanosine 5Ј-O-(3-thio)triphosphate binding (Goldberg et al., 1998;Narita et al., 1998Narita et al., , 2000Monory et al., 2000). The increases of the [ 35 S]guanosine 5Ј-O-(3-thio)triphosphate binding and antinociceptive effects induced by both EM-1 and EM-2 are selectively blocked by the pretreatment with selective -opioid receptor antagonist ␤-funaltrexamine or D-Phe-Cys-Tyr-D-Trp-Orn-Thr-Pen-Thr-NH 2 , indicating that the effects are mediated by the stimulation of -opioid receptors.However, recent studies indicate that the antinociceptive effects induced by EM-1 and EM-2 are mediated by the stimulation of different subtypes of -opioid receptors. Pretreatment with -opioid receptor antagonist 3-methoxynaltrexone selectively attenuated EM-2-but not EM-1-induced antinociception, whereas ␤-funaltrexamine inhibits both (Sakurada et al., 2000). There is an asymmetric cross-tolerance between EM-1 and EM-2, where mice made acutely tolerant to EM-1 are not cross-tolerant to EM-2, but mice made acutely tolerant to EM-2 cause partial cross-tolerance to EM-1 (Wu et al., 2001). Intrathecal pretreatment with antisense oligodeoxynucleotides against exon-8 of -opioid receptor clone inhibits the antinociception induced by EM-1

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“…The TF responses were then measured at 15 min after morphine injection. The doses of antisera used have been shown previously to be sufficient for their specific effects (Tseng and Huang, 1992;Xu and Tseng, 1997;Ohsawa et al, 2001;Wu et al, 2002). 4) Determine whether the morphine-induced antianalgesia is selective against opioid -agonists or is generalized to ␦-and -agonists.…”

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Nonopioidergic Mechanism Mediating Morphine-Induced Antianalgesia in the Mouse Spinal Cord

Wu¹,

Thompson²,

Sun³

et al. 2004

J Pharmacol Exp Ther

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Intrathecal (i.t.) pretreatment with a low dose (0.3 nmol) of morphine causes an attenuation of i.t. morphine-produced analgesia; the phenomenon has been defined as morphine-induced antianalgesia. The opioid-produced analgesia was measured with the tail-flick (TF) test in male CD-1 mice. Intrathecal pretreatment with low dose (0.3 nmol) of morphine time dependently attenuated i.t. morphine-produced (3.0 nmol) TF inhibition and reached a maximal effect at 45 min. Intrathecal pretreatment with morphine (0.009 -0.3 nmol) for 45 min also dose dependently attenuated morphine-produced TF inhibition. We have previously reported that intrathecal (i.t.) pretreatment with an endogenous -opioid peptide, endomorphin-2 (0.05-1.75 nmol), attenuates the antinociception produced by opioid agonists. The antianalgesic effect is caused by the release of dynorphin A(1-17) through the stimulation of a subtype of -opioid receptors. The unique features of this endomorphin-2-induced antianalgesic action are that there is a lag period before dynorphin A(1-17) is released, and the antianalgesic action of endomorphin-2 corresponds with the time course of dynorphin release Wu et al., 2003). Furthermore, i.t. administered endomorphin-2 at larger doses (5.25-35 nmol) produces analgesia by itself through activation of spinal -opioid receptors (Ohsawa et al., 2001), whereas its delayed antianalgesic action is manifested more easily at small doses of endomorphin-2 by its ability to attenuate the analgesic action of other opioids administered after endomorphin-2 pretreatment.There are indications from the literature that morphine may have an antianalgesic action. Pretreatment with a low dose of naloxone (0.00028 fmol) or dynorphin A antiserum given i.t. enhances the analgesic effect of intracerebroventricularly and i.t.-administered morphine (Fujimoto and Rady, 1989;Holmes and Fujimoto, 1993). Studies performed by Crain and Shen (1990, 2000 indicate that even though generally morphine has a depressant effect on action potential duration in mouse dorsal root ganglion preparations, very low doses (1 fmol-1 pmol) of morphine produce the opposite effect by prolonging the duration of the action potential, an excitatory action. Recent studies also have shown that morphine and opioid compounds not only simply elicit

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Roles of Endogenous Opioid Peptides in Modulation of Nocifensive Response to Formalin

Cited by 30 publications

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