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Laux-Biehlmann A, Mouheiche J, Vérièpe J, Goumon Y. Endogenous morphine and its metabolites in mammals: History, synthesis, localization and perspectives. Neuroscience 2013; 233:95-117. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2012] [Accepted: 12/07/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Stefano GB, Mantione KJ, Králíčková M, Ptacek R, Kuzelova H, Esch T, Kream RM. Parkinson's disease, L-DOPA, and endogenous morphine: a revisit. Med Sci Monit 2012; 18:RA133-137. [PMID: 22847214 PMCID: PMC3560700 DOI: 10.12659/msm.883259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2012] [Accepted: 06/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Clinical observations stemming from widespread employment of restorative L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) therapy for management of dyskinesia in Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients implicate a regulatory role for endogenous morphine in central nervous system dopamine neurotransmission. Reciprocally, it appears that restorative L-DOPA administration has provided us with a compelling in vivo pharmacological model for targeting peripheral sites involved in endogenous morphine expression in human subjects. The biological activities underlying endogenous morphine expression and its interaction with its major precursor dopamine strongly suggest that endogenous morphine systems are reciprocally dysregulated in PD. These critical issues are examined from historical and current perspectives within our short review.
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- George B. Stefano
- Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York – College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY, U.S.A
- Clinic of Psychiatry, 1 Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
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- Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York – College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY, U.S.A
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
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- Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York – College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY, U.S.A
- Clinic of Psychiatry, 1 Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
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- Clinic of Psychiatry, 1 Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Department of Biology and Medical Genetics, 2 Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
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- Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York – College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY, U.S.A
- Division of Integrative Health Promotion, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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- Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York – College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY, U.S.A
- Clinic of Psychiatry, 1 Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
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Endogenous morphine levels are increased in sepsis: a partial implication of neutrophils. PLoS One 2010; 5:e8791. [PMID: 20098709 PMCID: PMC2808358 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2009] [Accepted: 12/26/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background Mammalian cells synthesize morphine and the respective biosynthetic pathway has been elucidated. Human neutrophils release this alkaloid into the media after exposure to morphine precursors. However, the exact role of endogenous morphine in inflammatory processes remains unclear. We postulate that morphine is released during infection and can be determined in the serum of patients with severe infection such as sepsis. Methodology The presence and subcellular immunolocalization of endogenous morphine was investigated by ELISA, mass spectrometry analysis and laser confocal microscopy. Neutrophils were activated with Interleukin-8 (IL-8) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Morphine secretion was determined by a morphine-specific ELISA. μ opioid receptor expression was assessed with flow cytometry. Serum morphine concentrations of septic patients were determined with a morphine-specific ELISA and morphine identity was confirmed in human neutrophils and serum of septic patients by mass spectrometry analysis. The effects of the concentration of morphine found in serum of septic patients on LPS-induced release of IL-8 by human neutrophils were tested. Principal Findings We confirmed the presence of morphine in human neutrophil extracts and showed its colocalisation with lactoferrin within the secondary granules of neutrophils. Morphine secretion was quantified in the supernatant of activated human polymorphonuclear neutrophils in the presence and absence of Ca2+. LPS and IL-8 were able to induce a significant release of morphine only in presence of Ca2+. LPS treatment increased μ opioid receptor expression on neutrophils. Low concentration of morphine (8 nM) significantly inhibited the release of IL-8 from neutrophils when coincubated with LPS. This effect was reversed by naloxone. Patients with sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock had significant higher circulating morphine levels compared to patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome and healthy controls. Mass spectrometry analysis showed that endogenous morphine from serum of patient with sepsis was identical to poppy-derived morphine. Conclusions Our results indicate that morphine concentrations are increased significantly in the serum of patients with systemic infection and that morphine is, at least in part, secreted from neutrophils during sepsis. Morphine concentrations equivalent to those found in the serum of septic patients significantly inhibited LPS-induced IL-8 secretion in neutrophils.
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Crivellato E, Nico B, Ribatti D. The chromaffin vesicle: advances in understanding the composition of a versatile, multifunctional secretory organelle. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2009; 291:1587-602. [PMID: 19037853 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Chromaffin vesicles (CV) are highly sophisticated secretory organelles synthesized in adrenal medullary chromaffin cells. They contain a complex mixture of structural proteins, catecholamine neurotransmitters, peptide hormones, and the relative processing enzymes, as well as protease inhibitors. In addition, CV store ATP, ascorbic acid, and calcium. During the last decades, extensive studies have contributed to increase our understanding of the molecular composition of CV. Yet, the recent development of biochemical and imaging procedures has greatly increased the list of CV-soluble constituents and opened new horizons as to the complexity of CV involvement in acute stress responses. Thus, a coherent picture of CV molecular composition is still to be drawn. This review article will provide a detailed account of the content of CV soluble molecules as it emerges from the most recent analytical studies. Moreover, this review article will attempt at focussing on the physiological and pathophysiological implications of the products released by CV.
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- Enrico Crivellato
- Department of Medical and Morphological Research, Section of Anatomy, University of Udine School of Medicine, Udine, Italy.
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Stefano GB, Cadet P, Kream RM, Zhu W. The presence of endogenous morphine signaling in animals. Neurochem Res 2008; 33:1933-9. [PMID: 18777209 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-008-9674-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2007] [Accepted: 03/13/2008] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Recent empirical findings have contributed valuable mechanistic information in support of a regulated de novo biosynthetic pathway for chemically authentic morphine and related morphinan alkaloids within animal cells. Importantly, we and others have established that endogenously expressed morphine represents a key regulatory molecule effecting local circuit autocrine/paracrine cellular signaling via a novel mu(3) opiate receptor coupled to constitutive nitric oxide production and release. The present report provides an integrated review of the biochemical, pharmacological, and molecular demonstration of mu(3) opiate receptors in historical linkage to the elucidation of mechanisms of endogenous morphine production by animal cells and organ systems. Ongoing research in this exciting area provides a rare window of opportunity to firmly establish essential biochemical linkages between dopamine, a morphine precursor, and animal biosynthetic pathways involved in morphine biosynthesis that have been conserved throughout evolution.
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- George B Stefano
- Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York-College at Old Westbury, P.O. Box 210, Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA.
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Neri C, Ghelardini C, Sotak B, Palmiter RD, Guarna M, Stefano G, Bianchi E. Dopamine is necessary to endogenous morphine formation in mammalian brainin vivo. J Neurochem 2008; 106:2337-44. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2008.05572.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Pryor SC, Zhu W, Cadet P, Bianchi E, Guarna M, Stefano GB. Endogenous morphine: opening new doors for the treatment of pain and addiction. Expert Opin Biol Ther 2006; 5:893-906. [PMID: 16018736 DOI: 10.1517/14712598.5.7.893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) signalling is at the forefront of intense research interest because its many effects remain controversial and seemingly contradictory. This paper examines its role as a potential mediator of pain and tolerance. Within this context discussion covers endogenous morphine, documenting its ability to be made in animal tissues, including nervous tissue, and in diverse animal phyla. Supporting morphine as an endogenous signalling molecule is the presence of the newly cloned mu3 opiate receptor subtype found in animal (including human) immune, vascular and neural tissues, which is coupled to NO release. Importantly, this mu opiate receptor subtype is morphine-selective and opioid peptide-insensitive, further highlighting the presence of morphinergic signalling coupled to NO release. These findings provide novel insights into pain and tolerance as morphinergic signalling exhibits many similarities with NO actions. Taken together, a select morphinergic signalling system utilising NO opens the gate for the development of novel pharmaceuticals and/or the use of old pharmaceuticals in new ways.
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- Stephen C Pryor
- State University of New York--College at Old Westbury, Neuroscience Research Institute, Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA
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Zhu W, Mantione KJ, Shen L, Lee B, Stefano GB. Norlaudanosoline and Nicotine Increase Endogenous Ganglionic Morphine Levels: Nicotine Addiction. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2006; 26:1037-45. [PMID: 16645895 DOI: 10.1007/s10571-006-9021-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2005] [Accepted: 11/11/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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1. Given the presence of morphine, its metabolites and precursors, e.g., norlaudanosoline, in mammalian and invertebrate tissues, it became important to determine if exposing normal excised ganglia to norlaudanosoline would result in increasing endogenous morphine levels. 2. Mytilus edulis pedal ganglia contain 2.2 +/- 0.41 ng/g wet weight morphine as determined by high pressure liquid chromatography coupled to electrochemical detection and radioimmunoassay. 3. Incubation of M. edulis pedal ganglia with norlaudanosoline, a morphine precursor, resulted in a concentration- and time-dependent statistical increase in endogenous morphine levels (6.9 +/- 1.24 ng/g). 4. Injection of animals with nicotine also increased endogenous morphine levels in a manner that was antagonized by atropine, suggesting that nicotine addiction may be related to altering endogenous morphine levels in mammals. 5. We surmise that norlaudanosoline is being converted to morphine, demonstrating that invertebrate neural tissue can synthesize morphine.
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- Wei Zhu
- Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, P.O. Box 210, Old Westbury, New York 11568, USA
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Goumon Y, Muller A, Glattard E, Marban C, Gasnier C, Strub JM, Chasserot-Golaz S, Rohr O, Stefano GB, Welters ID, Van Dorsselaer A, Schoentgen F, Aunis D, Metz-Boutigue MH. Identification of morphine-6-glucuronide in chromaffin cell secretory granules. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:8082-9. [PMID: 16434406 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m502298200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We report for the first time that morphine-6-glucuronide, a highly analgesic morphine-derived molecule, is present in adrenal chromaffin granules and secreted from chromaffin cells upon stimulation. We also demonstrate that phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein (alternatively named Raf-1 kinase inhibitor protein or RKIP) acts as an endogenous morphine-6-glucuronide-binding protein. An UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 2B-like enzyme, described to transform morphine into morphine-6-glucuronide, has been immunodetected in the chromaffin granule matrix, and morphine-6-glucuronide de novo synthesis has been characterized, demonstrating the possible involvement of intragranular UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 2B-like enzyme in morphine-6-glucuronide metabolism. Once secreted into the circulation, morphine-6-glucuronide may mediate several systemic actions (e.g. on immune cells) based on its affinity for mu-opioid receptors. These activities could be facilitated by phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein (PEBP), acting as a molecular shield and preventing morphine-6-glucuronide from rapid clearance. Taken together, our data represent an important observation on the role of morphine-6-glucuronide as a new endocrine factor.
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- Yannick Goumon
- Physiopathologie du Système Nerveux, INSERM U575, 67084 Strasbourg, France.
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Zhu W, Ma Y, Cadet P, Yu D, Bilfinger TV, Bianchi E, Stefano GB. Presence of reticuline in rat brain: a pathway for morphine biosynthesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003; 117:83-90. [PMID: 14499484 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(03)00323-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We demonstrate the presence of reticuline, an isoquinoline alkaloid that was purified and identified in the rat brain. This was achieved by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electrochemical detection. This material was finally identified by nano-electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry. The expression of this tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloid in rat brain is at 12.7+/-5.4 ng/g wet tissue. Furthermore, rat chow, rat small and large intestine and bacteria cultured from these tissues did not contain either morphine or reticuline, eliminating the possibility of contamination or an exogenous source of these compounds. This finding adds information which suggests that morphine biosynthesis may occur in rat neural tissues, and that its biosynthesis pathway may be similar to that reported in the poppy plant.
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- Wei Zhu
- Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA
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Recent studies demonstrate major effects of adrenal medullary and catecholaminergic pathways on a wide variety of normal physiologic and regulatory events. Alterations in these pathways, involving changes in catecholamines or in proteins and peptides costored and coreleased with catecholamines, may lead to profound changes in autonomic, cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, metabolic, nociceptive, and immune function. These findings have important implications for a variety of human disease states. In addition, molecules associated with catecholaminergic function may provide novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for human disease and suggest specific genetic loci as important and fruitful targets for further genetic and pharmacogenetic studies.
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- Robert J Parmer
- Department of Medicine, University of California, and San Diego VA Healthcare System, San Diego, California 92161, USA.
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Goumon Y, Stefano GB, Aunis D, Metz-Boutigue MH. Implication of endogenous morphine in the communication between neuroendocrine and immune systems. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2002; 971:542-3. [PMID: 12438179 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04523.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yannick Goumon
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 338, Biologie de la Communication Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France.
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Weeks BS, Goldman S, Touma S, Payne M, Cadet P, Stefano GB. Morphine inhibits indolactam V-induced U937 cell adhesion and gelatinase secretion. J Cell Physiol 2001; 189:179-88. [PMID: 11598903 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.10015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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We demonstrate that indolactam V, a non-phorbol protein kinase C activator, promotes U937 cell attachment to fibronectin, type IV collagen and laminin. In the absence of indolactam V, 2-4% of U937 cells attach to all test substrates, however, in the presence of 100 nM indolactam V, 25, 16 and 11% of U937 cells attach to fibronectin, type IV collagen and laminin, respectively. When added concomitantly, 90 microM H-7, a protein kinase C inhibitor, reduces indolactam V-induced U937 cell adhesion to fibronectin by 91%. Monoclonal antibodies directed against both the beta1 and alpha 5 integrin subunits inhibit indolactam V-induced U937 cell adhesion to fibronectin by 62 and 52%, respectively. Indolactam V also promotes homotypic aggregation in U937 cells, which is blocked with either anti-ICAM or anti-LFA-1 antibodies. In addition, indolactam V promotes U937 cell secretion of a 92 kDa gelatinase as demonstrated by zymography. In the presence of low levels of morphine (10 nM-1.0 microM), the U937 cell attachment to matrix proteins was not significantly affected. However, in the presence of 10 microM morphine, the indolactam V treated cells exhibit a 71-74% reduction in cell adhesion to the matrix proteins. Further, 10 microM morphine also blocks indolactam V-induced homotypic aggregation and gelatinase secretion. The inhibitory effect of morphine on cell-matrix adhesion and gelatinase secretion was not inhibited by the opiate receptor antagonist naloxone (1 microM). While 10 microM naloxone did partially counteract the effect of 10 microM morphine on U937 cell attachment, this effect was likely non-specific since 10 microM naloxone alone increased cell adhesion. Supporting this conclusion, PCR analysis revealed that U937 cells do not express the mu high affinity morphine receptor. Also, indolactam V did not induce mu receptor expression, suggesting that morphine acts on U937 cells in a non-specific fashion.
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- B S Weeks
- Division of Mathematics and Sciences, Department of Biology, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York 11530, USA.
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Zhu W, Baggerman G, Goumon Y, Casares F, Brownawell B, Stefano GB. Presence of morphine and morphine-6-glucuronide in the marine mollusk Mytilus edulis ganglia determined by GC/MS and Q-TOF-MS. Starvation increases opiate alkaloid levels. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 2001; 88:155-60. [PMID: 11295241 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(01)00048-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Morphine and morphine-6-glucuronide, a morphine metabolite, have been identified and quantified in Mytilus edulis pedal ganglia at a level of 2.67+/-0.44 and 0.98+/-0.14 ng/ganglia, respectively by high performance liquid chromatography coupled to electrochemical detection. These opiate alkaloids were further identified by both gas-chromatography mass spectrometry and nanoflow electrospray ionization double quadrupole orthogonal acceleration Time of Flight mass spectrometry. In animals that were starved, the morphine level rose to 6.38+/-0.88 ng/ganglion and the morphine 6-glucoronide rose to a level of 23.0+/-3.2 ng/ganglion after 30 days. These studies demonstrate that opiate alkaloids are present as naturally occurring signal molecules whose levels respond to stress, i.e., starvation. Opiate alkaloids were not found in the animal's incubation media or food, demonstrating their synthesis occurred in the respective tissue. These new method of opiate alkaloid detection, conclusively proves that morphine and morphine-6-glucuronide are present in animal tissues.
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- W Zhu
- Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA
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Brix-Christensen V, Goumon Y, Tønnesen E, Chew M, Bilfinger T, Stefano GB. Endogenous morphine is produced in response to cardiopulmonary bypass in neonatal pigs. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2000; 44:1204-8. [PMID: 11065199 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-6576.2000.441004.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is associated with a systemic inflammatory response. Endogenous morphine production has previously been demonstrated in humans after cardiac surgery with CPB. It has been hypothesized that morphine plays a role as an anti-inflammatory mediator in the systemic inflammatory response. The aim of this study was to investigate if the CPB procedure in itself elicits an endogenous morphine production in neonatal pigs. METHODS Endogenous morphine production was measured in arterial blood in piglets exposed to sternotomy alone (sham group, n=10) or sternotomy and CPB (n=10). Blood samples were obtained immediately after the induction of anaesthesia, at the end of CPB and 4 h later. Morphine in arterial blood was detected by radioimmunoassay and confirmed by gas chromatography mass spectrometry. RESULTS Animals undergoing CPB showed detectable endogenous morphine concentrations immediately after CPB, with increased concentrations postoperatively. There was no measurable morphine production in the sham operated pigs. CONCLUSION The CPB procedures elicits an endogenous morphine production in neonatal pigs. This morphine response is analogous to the previously demonstrated response in patients subjected to cardiac surgery and CPB.
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- V Brix-Christensen
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
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Goumon Y, Bouret S, Casares F, Zhu W, Beauvillain JC, Stefano GB. Lipopolysaccharide increases endogenous morphine levels in rat brain. Neurosci Lett 2000; 293:135-8. [PMID: 11027852 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(00)01507-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The present study was designed to determine whether whole body injection of lipopolysaccharide increases endogenous rat brain morphine levels. High performance liquid chromatography coupled to electrochemical detection and gas-chromatography mass spectrometry reveal that the resting brain morphine level is 7.0+/-3.2ng/g wet weight. In a time dependent manner, intraperitoneal injection of lipopolysaccharide (10 microg), leads to an increase of brain morphine level with a peak reaching after 36h post injection. After 72h following the lipopolysaccharide-injection, morphine levels increased to 66.0+/-5.4ng/g brain wet weight (P<0.001). Furthermore, 96h of fasting also increased the brain morphine level to 44.0+/-3. 6ng/g of brain wet weight. These results suggest that rat brain morphinergic processes respond to organismic challenges after a significant latent period.
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- Y Goumon
- Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA
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Goumon Y, Zhu W, Weeks BS, Casares F, Cadet P, Bougaeva M, Brownawell B, Stefano GB. Identification of morphine in the adrenal medullary chromaffin PC-12 cell line. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 2000; 81:177-80. [PMID: 11000489 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(00)00141-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Morphine was identified in the adrenal medulla chromaffin PC-12 cell line by reversed-phase HPLC, following liquid and solid extraction. The morphine corresponding HPLC fractions (1.746+/-0.615 ng of morphine/million cells) were further analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and found to be identical to synthetic morphine. Furthermore, using primers derived from the human neuronal mu 1 opiate receptor, we used RT-PCR to detect expression of mu transcripts from this cell line. The transcript was absent. The study conclusively proves morphine, but not a mu opiate receptor, is constitutively expressed in the adrenal medulla chromaffin PC-12 cell line.
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- Y Goumon
- Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA
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