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Huang N, Huang W, Wu J, Long S, Luo Y, Huang J. Possible opportunities and challenges for traditional Chinese medicine research in 2035. Front Pharmacol 2024; 15:1426300. [PMID: 38974044 PMCID: PMC11224461 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2024.1426300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2024] [Accepted: 06/05/2024] [Indexed: 07/09/2024] Open
Abstract
The drug development process is poised for significant transformation due to the rapid advancement of modern biological and information technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI). As these new technologies and concepts infiltrate every stage of drug development, the efficiency and success rate of research and development are expected to improve substantially. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), a time-honored therapeutic system encompassing herbal medicine, acupuncture, and qigong, will also be profoundly impacted by these advancements. Over the next decade, Traditional Chinese medicine research will encounter both opportunities and challenges as it integrates with modern technologies and concepts. By 2035, TCM is anticipated to merge with modern medicine through a more contemporary and open research and development model, providing substantial support for treating a broader spectrum of diseases.
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- Nanqu Huang
- National Drug Clinical Trial Institution, The First People’s Hospital of Zunyi, Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China
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- National Drug Clinical Trial Institution, The First People’s Hospital of Zunyi, Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China
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- National Drug Clinical Trial Institution, The First People’s Hospital of Zunyi, Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China
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- Cloud Computing Division, Jiangsu Hoperun Software Co., Ltd., Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- National Drug Clinical Trial Institution, The First People’s Hospital of Zunyi, Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Basic Pharmacology and Joint International Research Laboratory of Ethnomedicine of Ministry of Education, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China
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Rajendran S, UshaVipinachandran V, Badagoppam Haroon KH, Ashokan I, Bhunia SK. A comprehensive review on multi-colored emissive carbon dots as fluorescent probes for the detection of pharmaceutical drugs in water. ANALYTICAL METHODS : ADVANCING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 2022; 14:4263-4291. [PMID: 36278849 DOI: 10.1039/d2ay01288j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Exposure to constituent hazardous chemicals in medical products has become a threat to environmental health across the globe. Excessive medication and the mishandling of pharmaceutical drugs can lead to the increased presence of chemicals in the aquatic environment, causing water pollution. Only a few nanomaterials exist for the detection of these chemicals and they are limited in use due to their adverse toxicity, instability, cost, and low aqueous solubility. In contrast, carbon dots (C-dots), a member of the family of carbon-based nanomaterials, have various beneficial properties including excellent biocompatibility, strong photoluminescence, low photobleaching, tunable fluorescence, and easy surface modification. Herein, we summarize recent advancements in various synthetic strategies for high-quality tunable fluorescent C-dots. The root of fluorescence has been briefly explained via the quantum confinement effect, surface defects, and molecular fluorescence. The surface functional moieties of C-dots have been investigated in depth to recognize the various types of pharmaceutical drugs that are used for the treatment of patients. The modulation of C-dot fluorescence in the course of their interactions with these drugs has been carefully explained. Different types of interaction mechanisms behind the C-dot fluorescence alteration have been discussed. Finally, the challenges and future perspectives of C-dots have been proposed for the vibrant field development of C-dot-based drug sensors.
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- Sathish Rajendran
- Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 632014, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 632014, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 632014, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 632014, India.
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Marcoli M, Agnati LF, Franco R, Cortelli P, Anderlini D, Guidolin D, Cervetto C, Maura G. Modulating brain integrative actions as a new perspective on pharmacological approaches to neuropsychiatric diseases. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2022; 13:1038874. [PMID: 36699033 PMCID: PMC9868467 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2022.1038874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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A critical aspect of drug development in the therapy of neuropsychiatric diseases is the "Target Problem", that is, the selection of a proper target after not simply the etiopathological classification but rather the detection of the supposed structural and/or functional alterations in the brain networks. There are novel ways of approaching the development of drugs capable of overcoming or at least reducing the deficits without triggering deleterious side effects. For this purpose, a model of brain network organization is needed, and the main aspects of its integrative actions must also be established. Thus, to this aim we here propose an updated model of the brain as a hyper-network in which i) the penta-partite synapses are suggested as key nodes of the brain hyper-network and ii) interacting cell surface receptors appear as both decoders of signals arriving to the network and targets of central nervous system diseases. The integrative actions of the brain networks follow the "Russian Doll organization" including the micro (i.e., synaptic) and nano (i.e., molecular) levels. In this scenario, integrative actions result primarily from protein-protein interactions. Importantly, the macromolecular complexes arising from these interactions often have novel structural binding sites of allosteric nature. Taking G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) as potential targets, GPCRs heteromers offer a way to increase the selectivity of pharmacological treatments if proper allosteric drugs are designed. This assumption is founded on the possible selectivity of allosteric interventions on G protein-coupled receptors especially when organized as "Receptor Mosaics" at penta-partite synapse level.
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- Manuela Marcoli
- Department of Pharmacy, Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
- Interuniversity Center for the Promotion of the 3Rs Principles in Teaching and Research (Centro 3R), Pisa, Italy
- Center of Excellence for Biomedical Research, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
- *Correspondence: Manuela Marcoli, ; Luigi F. Agnati,
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- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic Sciences and Neuroscience, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
- *Correspondence: Manuela Marcoli, ; Luigi F. Agnati,
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- CiberNed Network Center for Neurodegenerative diseases, National Spanish Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Molecular Neurobiology laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- School of Chemistry, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Sciences (DIBINEM), Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Centre for Sensorimotor Performance, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
- Interuniversity Center for the Promotion of the 3Rs Principles in Teaching and Research (Centro 3R), Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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Roy N, Parhar I. Habenula orphan G-protein coupled receptors in the pathophysiology of fear and anxiety. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021; 132:870-883. [PMID: 34801259 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The phasic emotion, fear, and the tonic emotion, anxiety, have been conventionally inspected in clinical frameworks to epitomize memory acquisition, storage, and retrieval. However, inappropriate expression of learned fear in a safe environment and its resistance to suppression is a cardinal feature of various fear-related disorders. A significant body of literature suggests the involvement of extra-amygdala circuitry in fear disorders. Consistent with this view, the present review underlies incentives for the association between the habenula and fear memory. G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important to understand the molecular mechanisms central to fear learning due to their neuromodulatory role. The efficacy of a pharmacological strategy aimed at exploiting habenular-GPCR desensitization machinery can serve as a therapeutic target combating the pathophysiology of fear disorders. Originating from this milieu, the conserved nature of orphan GPCRs in the brain, with some having the highest expression in the habenula can lead to recent endeavors in understanding its functionality in fear circuitry.
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- Nisa Roy
- Brain Research Institute, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- Brain Research Institute, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia.
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UPLC-MS/MS-based profiling of 31 neurochemicals in the mouse brain after treatment with the antidepressant nefazodone. Microchem J 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2021.106580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Kim SS, Kan H, Hwang KS, Yang JY, Son Y, Shin DS, Lee BH, Ahn SH, Ahn JH, Cho SH, Bae MA. Neurochemical Effects of 4-(2Chloro-4-Fluorobenzyl)-3-(2-Thienyl)-1,2,4-Oxadiazol-5(4H)-One in the Pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-Induced Epileptic Seizure Zebrafish Model. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:1285. [PMID: 33525453 PMCID: PMC7865321 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22031285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Revised: 01/18/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, and it is characterized by spontaneous seizures. In a previous study, we identified 4-(2-chloro-4-fluorobenzyl)-3-(2-thienyl)-1,2,4-oxadiazol-5(4H)-one (GM-90432) as a novel anti-epileptic agent in chemically- or genetically-induced epileptic zebrafish and mouse models. In this study, we investigated the anti-epileptic effects of GM-90432 through neurochemical profiling-based approach to understand the neuroprotective mechanism in a pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-induced epileptic seizure zebrafish model. GM-90432 effectively improved PTZ-induced epileptic behaviors via upregulation of 5-hydroxytryptamine, 17-β-estradiol, dihydrotestosterone, progesterone, 5α -dihydroprogesterone, and allopregnanolone levels, and downregulation of normetanephrine, gamma-aminobutyric acid, and cortisol levels in brain tissue. GM-90432 also had a protective effect against PTZ-induced oxidative stress and zebrafish death, suggesting that it exhibits biphasic neuroprotective effects via scavenging of reactive oxygen species and anti-epileptic activities in a zebrafish model. In conclusion, our results suggest that neurochemical profiling study could be used to better understand of anti-epileptic mechanism of GM-90432, potentially leading to new drug discovery and development of anti-seizure agents.
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- Seong Soon Kim
- Bio & Drug Discovery Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Korea; (S.S.K.); (H.K.); (K.-S.H.); (J.Y.Y.); (Y.S.); (D.-S.S.); (B.H.L.)
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- Bio & Drug Discovery Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Korea; (S.S.K.); (H.K.); (K.-S.H.); (J.Y.Y.); (Y.S.); (D.-S.S.); (B.H.L.)
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- Bio & Drug Discovery Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Korea; (S.S.K.); (H.K.); (K.-S.H.); (J.Y.Y.); (Y.S.); (D.-S.S.); (B.H.L.)
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- Bio & Drug Discovery Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Korea; (S.S.K.); (H.K.); (K.-S.H.); (J.Y.Y.); (Y.S.); (D.-S.S.); (B.H.L.)
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- Bio & Drug Discovery Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Korea; (S.S.K.); (H.K.); (K.-S.H.); (J.Y.Y.); (Y.S.); (D.-S.S.); (B.H.L.)
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- Bio & Drug Discovery Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Korea; (S.S.K.); (H.K.); (K.-S.H.); (J.Y.Y.); (Y.S.); (D.-S.S.); (B.H.L.)
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- Bio & Drug Discovery Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Korea; (S.S.K.); (H.K.); (K.-S.H.); (J.Y.Y.); (Y.S.); (D.-S.S.); (B.H.L.)
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- Department of Chemistry, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Korea; (S.H.A.); (J.H.A.)
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- Department of Chemistry, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Korea; (S.H.A.); (J.H.A.)
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- Chemical Analysis Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Korea
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- Bio & Drug Discovery Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Korea; (S.S.K.); (H.K.); (K.-S.H.); (J.Y.Y.); (Y.S.); (D.-S.S.); (B.H.L.)
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology, University of Science & Technology, Daejeon 34113, Korea
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Ballas SK, Darbari DS. Review/overview of pain in sickle cell disease. Complement Ther Med 2020; 49:102327. [PMID: 32147066 DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2020.102327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a highly complex inherited disorder of hemoglobin structure. Although the molecular lesion is a single-point mutation, the sickle gene is pleiotropic in nature causing multiple phenotypic expressions that constitute the various complications of the disease. Its manifestations could be acute, chronic, nociceptive, neuropathic that could occur singly or in various combinations. Pain continues to be the major factor of SCD phenotypic complications and the most common cause of admissions to the Emergency Department and/or the hospital. Although progress has been made in understanding the pathophysiology of SCD as well as in developing curative therapies such as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and gene therapy, effective pain management continues to lag behind. Palliative therapies continue to be the major approach to the management of SCD and its complications. The advent of hydroxyurea made partial success in preventing the frequency of vaso-occlusive crises and l-glutamine awaits post-trial confirmation of benefits. The search for additional pharmacotherapeutic agents that could be used singly or in combination with hydroxyurea and/or l-glutamine awaits their dawn hopefully in the near future. The purpose of this review is to describe the various manifestations of SCD, their pathophysiology and their current management. Recent impressive advances in understanding the pathophysiology of pain promise the determination of agents that could replace or minimize the use of opioids.
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- Samir K Ballas
- Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research, Department of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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- Division of Hematology, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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Rizvi S, Gold J, Khan AM. Role of Naltrexone in Improving Compulsive Drinking in Psychogenic Polydipsia. Cureus 2019; 11:e5320. [PMID: 31598428 PMCID: PMC6777931 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.5320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Psychogenic polydipsia or self-induced water intoxication is a potentially lethal condition seen in many chronic psychiatric patients. This is a literature review based on therapeutic significance of Naltrexone in improving compulsive water drinking behavior in chronic psychiatrically ill patients with psychogenic polydipsia. Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist approved by FDA for alcohol dependence. Extensive literature search provides a line of evidence that suggests correlation of opioid receptor with compulsive water ingestion in animals. However, there is limited data regarding clinical utility of naltrexone in improving psychogenic polydipsia in human species. This review highlights the necessity for further research and trials to elucidate the role of naltrexone in human psychogenic drinking behavior.
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- Sukaina Rizvi
- Psychiatry, Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Manhattan, USA
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- Psychiatric, Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Manhattan, USA
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- Psychiatry, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Harlingen, USA
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Ballas SK. From Individualized Treatment of Sickle Cell Pain to Precision Medicine: A 40-Year Journey. J Clin Med Res 2016; 8:357-60. [PMID: 27081419 PMCID: PMC4817573 DOI: 10.14740/jocmr2508w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In the 1970s, sickle cell pain was treated with trial and error approach by increasing or decreasing the dose of an opioid or switching from one analgesic to another. This approach was controversial with criticism and doubt about its usefulness. Since then, advances in determining the structure of opioid receptors and the role of the CYP450 enzymes in metabolizing opioids revealed that these anatomic and metabolic findings are not the same in all persons, thus explaining the variability in response to opioids among patients. Thus, the “trial and error approach” has a scientific basis after all.
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- Samir K Ballas
- Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research, Department of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
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Ko AR, Kim SJ, Jung MK, Kim KE, Chae HW, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kwon AR. Hypotonic hyponatremia by primary polydipsia caused brain death in a 10-year-old boy. Ann Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 2015; 20:166-9. [PMID: 26512354 PMCID: PMC4623346 DOI: 10.6065/apem.2015.20.3.166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2015] [Revised: 08/09/2015] [Accepted: 08/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hypotonic hyponatremia by primary polydipsia can cause severe neurologic complications due to cerebral edema. A 10-year-and-4-month-old boy with a psychiatric history of intellectual disability and behavioral disorders who presented with chief complaints of seizure and mental change showed severe hypotonic hyponatremia with low urine osmolality (serum sodium, 101 mmol/L; serum osmolality, 215 mOsm/kg; urine osmolality, 108 mOsm/kg). The patient had been polydipsic for a few months prior, and this had been worse in the previous few days. A diagnosis of hypotonic hyponatremia caused by primary polydipsia was made. The patient was in a coma, and developed respiratory arrest and became brain death shortly after admission, despite the treatment. The initial brain magnetic resonance imaging showed severe brain swelling with tonsillar and uncal herniation, and the patient was declared as brain death. It has been reported that antidiuretic hormone suppression is inadequate in patients with chronic polydipsia, and that this inadequate suppression of antidiuretic hormone is aggravated in patients with acute psychosis. Therefore, hyponatremia by primary polydipsia, although it is rare, can cause serious and life-threatening neurologic complications.
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- A Ra Ko
- Department of Pediatrics, Severance Children's Hospital, Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, Severance Children's Hospital, Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, Severance Children's Hospital, Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, Severance Children's Hospital, Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, Severance Children's Hospital, Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, Severance Children's Hospital, Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, Severance Children's Hospital, Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Cynthia B, Cristina DB, Adriana VO, Belén DM, María RA, Marilina C, Zulema S. Protective effect of oestradiol in the coeliac ganglion against ovarian apoptotic mechanism on dioestrus. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2013; 135:60-6. [PMID: 23313240 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2012.12.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2012] [Revised: 12/23/2012] [Accepted: 12/29/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The aims of this work were to investigate if oestradiol 10(-8)M in the incubation media of either the ovary alone (OV) or the ganglion compartment of an ex vivo coeliac ganglion-superior ovarian nerve-ovary system (a) modifies the release of ovarian progesterone (P4) and oestradiol (E2) on dioestrus II, and (b) modifies the ovarian gene expression of 3β-HSD and 20α-HSD enzymes and markers of apoptosis. The concentration of ovarian P4 release was measured in both experimental schemes, and ovarian P4 and E2 in the ex vivo system by RIA at different times. The expression of 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, 20α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and antiapoptotic bcl-2 and proapoptotic bax by RT-PCR were determined. E2 added in the coeliac ganglion caused an increase in the ovarian release of the P4, E2 and 3β-HSD, while in the ovary incubation alone it decreased P4 and 3β-HSD but increased and 20α-HSD and bax/bcl-2 ratio. It is concluded that through a direct effect on the ovary, E2 promotes luteal regression in DII rats, but the addition of E2 in the coeliac ganglion does not have the same effect. The peripheral nervous system, through the superior ovarian nerve, has a protective effect against the apoptotic mechanism on DII.
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- Bronzi Cynthia
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Facultad de Química, Bioquímica y Farmacia, UNSL, San Luis, Argentina.
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In the early 1970s, receptors for neurotransmitters acting via second messengers had not been identified biochemically nor were there definitive links to such messengers. The discovery by John W. Kebabian and Paul Greengard of a dopamine-sensitive adenyl cyclase, accordingly, was a giant step forward. The investigators first characterized the enzyme in sympathetic ganglia wherein dopamine-producing cells link pre- and post-synaptic neurons. Then, in the corpus striatum, the brain area enriched in dopamine, they delineated the enzyme\x{2019}s properties and showed that it was inhibited by antipsychotic drugs, leading to a large body of research on dopamine as a mediator of antipsychotic drug action and putative roles for this transmitter in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
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Psychogenic Polydipsia in an Opiate Addict With Bipolar II: A Case Report. J Addict Med 2011; 4:246-9. [PMID: 21769045 DOI: 10.1097/adm.0b013e3181cdaa0c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Scientific styles vary tremendously. For me, research is largely about the unfettered pursuit of novel ideas and experiments that can test multiple ideas in a day, not a year, an approach that I learned from my mentor Julius "Julie" Axelrod. This focus on creative conceptualizations has been my métier since working in the summers during medical school at the National Institutes of Health, during my two years in the Axelrod laboratory, and throughout my forty-five years at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Equally important has been the "high" that emerges from brainstorming with my students. Nothing can compare with the eureka moments when, together, we sense new insights and, better yet, when high-risk, high-payoff experiments succeed. Although I have studied many different questions over the years, a common theme emerges: simple biochemical approaches to understanding molecular messengers, usually small molecules. Equally important has been identifying, purifying, and cloning the messengers' relevant biosynthetic, degradative, or target proteins, at all times seeking potential therapeutic relevance in the form of drugs. In the interests of brevity, this Reflections article is highly selective, and, with a few exceptions, literature citations are only of findings of our laboratory that illustrate notable themes.
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- Solomon H Snyder
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
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Nilvebrant L. ON THE MUSCARINIC RECEPTORS IN THE URINARY BLADDER AND THE PUTATIVE SUBCLASSIFICATION OF MUSCARINIC RECEPTORS. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0773.1986.tb03647.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Onabanjo AO, John TA, Sokale AA, Samuel OT. Analgesic and Antiinflammatory Effects of Chasmanthera dependens. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.3109/13880209109082844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- A. O. Onabanjo
- Department of Pharmacology Chemotherapy Unit, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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- Department of Pharmacology Chemotherapy Unit, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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- Department of Pharmacology Chemotherapy Unit, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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- Federal Ministry of Health, Department of Food and Drug Administration and Control, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
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Singh PP, Singal P. Morphine-induced neuroimmunomodulation in murine visceral leishmaniasis: the role(s) of cytokines and nitric oxide. J Neuroimmune Pharmacol 2007; 2:338-51. [PMID: 18040852 DOI: 10.1007/s11481-007-9094-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2007] [Accepted: 09/17/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Opioid modulation of host resistance to infectious diseases is well documented; however, not much is known during visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Low doses of morphine, administered subcutaneously in Leishmania donovani-infected BALB/c mice, on days 0 and +15, significantly (p < 0.05) suppressed (1 mg/kg/day) or even sterile-cleared (2 mg/kg/day) the infection; paradoxically, high doses (10 and 30 mg/kg/day) exacerbated the infection. In vitro, low concentration (1 x 10(-9) and 1 x 10(-11) M) morphine treatment of L. donovani-infected mouse peritoneal macrophages (PM), endowed them with significant (p < 0.05) leishmanicidal activity, whereas a high-concentration (1 x 10(-5) M) treatment augmented intramacrophage parasite growth. Naloxone pre-treatment of infected-mice (4 mg/kg x 2) and of infected-PM (1 x 10(-5) M), blocked only the morphine low dose/concentration-induced protective effect. The splenocytes from protected mice and morphine low concentration-treated infected-PM, elaborated significantly (p < 0.05) enhanced levels of interleukin-12, interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and nitrite in the culture medium; a high dose/concentration suppressed their elaboration. Curiously, only morphine high dose/concentration-treated infected mice splenocytes and infected PM, produced significantly (p < 0.05) increased quantity of transforming growth factor-beta1. Aminoguanidine, significantly (p < 0.05) blocked the morphine low dose/concentration-induced protective effect, in vivo and in vitro. This first study demonstrates dose-dependent biphasic modulatory effects of morphine in L. donovani-infected mice and PM, in vitro, apparently via nitric oxide-dependent mechanisms. These results thus demonstrate the implications of opiate abuse on the efficacy assessment of antileishmanial drugs and vaccines, and on the reactivation of latent VL in areas where both drug abuse and VL are rampant.
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- Prati Pal Singh
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Phase-X, S. A. S., Nagar 60 062, India.
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Bralet MC, Ton T, Falissard B. Schizophrenic patients with polydipsia and water intoxication more often have a form of schizophrenia first described by Kraepelin. Psychiatry Res 2007; 152:267-71. [PMID: 17445907 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2005] [Revised: 10/12/2006] [Accepted: 11/19/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Polydipsia and water intoxication (PWI) seem to be associated with a particular form of schizophrenia, first described by Kraepelin, involving negative symptoms, disorganization and poor outcome. In this study, a group of 20 schizophrenic patients with PWI was selected and matched for age, duration of illness and gender with a group of 20 schizophrenic controls with no PWI. For these patients the following measure were obtained: clinical and demographic data, Keefe's criteria for Kraepelinian schizophrenia, the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale score and the score on Fagerström's Nicotine Dependence Scale. The group of schizophrenic patients with PWI presents significantly higher levels of negative symptoms, disorganized symptoms and general symptoms of psychopathology, and it is composed of a significantly higher percentage of Kraepelinian patients. These results show an association of polydipsia and water intoxication with Kraepelinian schizophrenia suggesting physiological hypotheses for a specific pathogenic pathway.
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- Marie-Cecile Bralet
- Department of Psychiatry (Fitz-James 5), Clermont de l'Oise Mental Health Hospital, 2 rue des finets, 60600 Clermont de l'Oise, France.
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Vitale AA, Calviño MA, Ferrari CC, Stahl AE, Pomilio AB. Preparation and biological evaluation of technetium-99m-phenylethylamine complexes. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/jlcr.2580360602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Gawell L, Hall H, Köhler C. Preparation of tritium labelled benzamide dopamine-D2 lignads at high specific activity. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/jlcr.2580221006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Singal P, Singh PP. Leishmania donovani amastigote component-induced colony-stimulating factor production by macrophages: modulation by morphine. Microbes Infect 2005; 7:148-56. [PMID: 15716055 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2004.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2004] [Revised: 10/09/2004] [Accepted: 10/12/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The neuroimmunomodulatory effects of opiates during microbial infections are now well known; however, not much is known during leishmaniasis. Here, we report the effects of morphine on purified approximately 12-kDa component of Leishmania donovani amastigote antigen (LDAA-12)-induced colony-stimulating factor (CSF) production by mouse peritoneal macrophages (PMs) in vitro. Low concentrations (1 x 10(-9) and 1 x 10(-11) M) of morphine significantly (P < 0.05) augmented the production of CSFs, whereas high concentrations (1 x 10(-3) and 1 x 10(-5) M) inhibited CSF production. Morphine exerted a similar concentration-dependent biphasic effect on the LDAA-12-induced elaboration of granulocyte (G)-macrophage (M)-CSF (GM-CSF) and M-CSF by PMs in their conditioned medium, as quantified by using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Furthermore, selective agonists of mu-(DAGO) and delta-(DPDPE) opioid receptors also, respectively, augmented and inhibited the production of CSFs. Pretreatment of PMs with naloxone (1 x 10(-5) M) significantly (P < 0.05) blocked the augmenting effect of morphine. In contrast, at 1 x 10(-5) M, naloxone lacked any effect on the inhibitory effect of morphine; however, its 100-fold higher concentration partially blocked it. This study, apparently for the first time, demonstrates that morphine, via surface opioid receptors, biphasically modulates the LDAA-12-induced CSF production by PMs, in vitro. These results thus show the implications of opiate abuse on the outcome of therapeutic interventions in areas where both visceral leishmaniasis and drug abuse are rampant.
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- Priya Singal
- National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Sector-67, S.A.S. Nagar, India
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Jadrić R, Zulić I, Hasić S, Kiseljaković E, Zecević B, Radovanović J, Ićindić-Nakas E, Winterhalter-Jadrić M. Trazodone influence on rat sera beta-endorphins level. Bosn J Basic Med Sci 2005; 4:33-6. [PMID: 15629021 PMCID: PMC7250121 DOI: 10.17305/bjbms.2004.3411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Some 25 years ago it was found that parts of CNS could produce strong analgesic response on little morphine quantities. Later studies proved the existence for dozen of morphine-like substances, called opioids, which are normally produced in the brain. The most important are endorphins, met- and leu-encephalin and dinorphin produced both in hypothalamus and pituitary gland. The aim of our study was to found whether and how strong produce of beta-endorphins is to be expected when psychotropic drugs are used. Trazodon as antidepressant was used, and RIA technique for quantification of sera beta-endorphins. The results showed significant difference in rat sera beta-endorphins between certain days of drug application. These studies showed that beta-endorphins could be of great importance, used as markers for evaluation of patient treatment and eventual abuse of psychotropic drugs.
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- Radivoj Jadrić
- Institute for Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Sarajevo, Medical faculty, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Miller PL, Ernst AA. Sex differences in analgesia: a randomized trial of mu versus kappa opioid agonists. South Med J 2004; 97:35-41. [PMID: 14746420 DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000085743.68121.a9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We sought to evaluate whether there is a sex difference in the analgesic response to mu versus kappa opioids in the management of acute moderate to severe pain of injury in the emergency department. METHODS The study was a randomized, double-blind, clinical trial comparing the prototypical mu-receptor agonist, morphine sulfate, to the prototypical kappa agonist, butorphanol. The primary endpoints were degree of relief by visual analog scores at 30 and 60 minutes. Statistical analysis was performed using Mann-Whitney Utest for nonparametric analysis and repeated-measures analysis of variance. RESULTS Ninety-four patients were entered in the study, with 49 (52%) males and 45 (48%) females. Forty-six received morphine sulfate and 48 received butorphanol. There was no difference in demographics in the two groups. At 60 minutes, females had significantly lower visual analog scores with butorphanol compared with morphine (P = 0.046). At 60 minutes, there was a trend for a difference in response of males versus females to morphine, with males responding better than females (P = 0.06). CONCLUSION Females had better pain scores with butorphanol than morphine at 60 minutes.
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- Penny L Miller
- Patient Care Services, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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Children frequently received no treatment, or inadequate treatment, for pain and for painful procedures. The newborn and critically ill children are especially vulnerable to no treatment or under-treatment. Nerve pathways essential for the transmission and perception of pain are present and functioning by 24 weeks of gestation. The failure to provide analgesia for pain results in rewiring the nerve pathways responsible for pain transmission in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord and results in increased pain perception for future painful results. Many children would withdraw or deny their pain in an attempt to avoid yet another terrifying and painful experiences, such as the intramuscular injections. Societal fears of opioid addiction and lack of advocacy are also causal factors in the under-treatment of pediatric pain. False beliefs about addictions and proper use of acetaminophen and other analgesics resulted in the failure to provide analgesia to children. All children even the newborn and critically ill require analgesia for pain and painful procedures. Unbelieved pain interferes with sleep, leads to fatigue and a sense of helplessness, and may result in increased morbidity or mortality.
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- M Yaster
- Departments of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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Araujo DM, Cherry SR, Tatsukawa KJ, Toyokuni T, Kornblum HI. Deficits in striatal dopamine D(2) receptors and energy metabolism detected by in vivo microPET imaging in a rat model of Huntington's disease. Exp Neurol 2000; 166:287-97. [PMID: 11085894 DOI: 10.1006/exnr.2000.7514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Functional imaging by repeated noninvasive scans of specific (18)F tracer distribution using a high-resolution small-animal PET scanner, the microPET, assessed the time course of alterations in energy utilization and dopamine receptors in rats with unilateral striatal quinolinic acid lesions. Energy utilization ipsilateral to the lesion, determined using scans of 2-deoxy-2-[(18)F]fluoro-d-glucose uptake, was compromised severely 1 week after intrastriatal excitotoxin injections. When the same rats were imaged 5 and 7 weeks postlesion, decrements in energy metabolism were even more prominent. In contrast, lesion-induced effects on dopamine D(2) receptor binding were more progressive, with an initial upregulation of [3-(2'-(18)F]fluoroethyl)spiperone binding apparent 1 week postlesion followed by a decline 5 and 7 weeks thereafter. Additional experiments revealed that marked upregulation of dopamine D(2) receptors consequent to quinolinic acid injections could be detected as early as 3 days after the initial insult. Postmortem markers of striatal GABAergic neurons were assessed in the same rats 7 weeks after the lesion: expression of glutamic acid decarboxylase and dopamine D(1) receptor mRNA, as well as [(3)H]SCH-23,390 and [(3)H]spiperone binding to dopamine D(1) and D(2) receptors, respectively, detected prominent decrements consequent to the lesion. In contrast, by 7 weeks postlesion [(3)H]WIN-35,428 binding to dopamine transport sites within the striatum appeared to be enhanced proximal to the quinolinic acid injection sites. The results demonstrate that functional imaging using the microPET is a useful technique to explore not only the progressive neurodegeneration that occurs in response to excitotoxic insults, but also to examine more closely the intricacies of neurotransmitter activity in a small animal model of HD.
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- D M Araujo
- Department of Medical and Molecular Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Biological Imaging, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA
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Park Y, Ma T, Tanaka S, Jang C, Loh HH, Ko KH, Ho IK. Comparison of G-protein activation in the brain by mu-, delta-, and kappa-opioid receptor agonists in mu-opioid receptor knockout mice. Brain Res Bull 2000; 52:297-302. [PMID: 10856828 DOI: 10.1016/s0361-9230(00)00265-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Mice lacking the mu-opioid receptor gene have been developed by a gene knockout procedure. In this study, the activity of opioid receptor coupled G-proteins was examined to investigate whether there is a change in the extent of coupling for mu, delta-, and kappa-opioid receptors in mu-opioid receptor knockout mice. Selective agonists of mu- (DAMGO), delta- (DPDPE), and kappa- (U-69,593) opioid receptors stimulated [(35)S]GTPgammaS binding in the caudate putamen and cortex of wild-type mice. In contrast, only U-69,593 stimulated [(35)S]GTPgammaS binding in these regions of mu-opioid receptor knockout mice. These results confirmed the absence of G-protein activation by a mu-opioid receptor agonist in mu-opioid receptor knockout mice, and demonstrated that coupling of the kappa-opioid receptor to G-proteins is preserved in these mice. However, G-protein activation by the delta-opioid receptor agonist, DPDPE, was reduced in the mu-opioid receptor knockout mice, at least in the brain regions studied using autoradiography.
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MESH Headings
- Alleles
- Analgesics, Opioid/pharmacology
- Animals
- Autoradiography
- Benzeneacetamides
- Binding, Competitive/drug effects
- Blotting, Southern
- Brain/drug effects
- Brain/metabolism
- Enkephalin, Ala(2)-MePhe(4)-Gly(5)-/pharmacology
- Enkephalin, D-Penicillamine (2,5)-/pharmacology
- GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate)/metabolism
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Pyrrolidines/pharmacology
- Receptors, Opioid, delta/agonists
- Receptors, Opioid, kappa/agonists
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/agonists
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/deficiency
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/genetics
- Sulfur Radioisotopes
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- Y Park
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 32916-4505, USA
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Choe CY, Im HJ, Ko JL, Loh HH. Mouse mu opioid receptor gene expression. A 34-base pair cis-acting element inhibits transcription of the mu opioid receptor gene from the distal promoter. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:34926-32. [PMID: 9857022 PMCID: PMC3001105 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.52.34926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The 5'-flanking region of the mouse mu opioid receptor (MOR) gene has two promoters, referred to as distal and proximal, and the activities of each in the brain are quite different from each other. The 5'-distal promoter regulatory sequences (5'-DPRS), positioned between these two promoters, have strong inhibitory effects on the reporter gene expression driven by the MOR distal promoter. In our studies, detailed 3' deletion mapping of the 5'-DPRS narrowed down the negative cis-acting element to a 34-base pair (bp) segment (position -721 to -687). This 34-bp cis-acting element functions in both neuronal (NMB) and non-neuronal (CHO and RAW264.7) cultured cells. S1 nuclease protection assays indicated that this 34-bp cis-acting element suppresses distal promoter activity at the transcriptional level. Linker scanning mutagenesis demonstrated that nucleotides around position -721 and -689 in the 34-bp cis-acting element are essential for the regulation of distal promoter activity. Operational characterization of the 34-bp cis-acting element in the homologous MOR distal promoter and the heterologous SV40 promoter showed that its effects are position- and promoter-dependent while being orientation-independent in both promoters. Collectively, these data suggested that this 34-bp segment is a conditional transcriptional cis-acting element that blocks mouse MOR gene expression from the distal promoter.
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- C y Choe
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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Laureau E, Marciniak B, Hebrard A, Herbaux B, Guieu JD. [Neuromonitoring and anesthesia in surgery of the spine]. Neurophysiol Clin 1998; 28:299-320. [PMID: 9793063 DOI: 10.1016/s0987-7053(98)80002-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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The authors report the main effects of anaesthetic drugs that are used alone or in association with anaesthetic protocols on somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) and on motor evoked potentials (MEP). In the first part of the article, the effects are analysed on SEPs and MEPs that are obtained from non-invasive methods; in the second part, the effects of anaesthesia are analysed with respect to invasive methods of EP recordings. The current increase of invasive techniques of neuromonitoring by SEPs and MEPs is in relation with the weak effect of anaesthetics on evoked responses. Total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) provides stable anaesthesia for non-invasive SEP neuromonitoring only if bolus is avoided. With TIVA and other anaesthetic techniques, the introduction of repetitive stimulation provides new possibilities for non-invasive MEP neuromonitoring.
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- E Laureau
- Service de neurophysiologie clinique, CHRU Lille, France.
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Chong SA, Tan LL, Wong MC, Woo SC, Tan CH, Ng LL. Disordered water homeostasis in Asian patients with schizophrenia. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 1997; 31:869-73. [PMID: 9483261 DOI: 10.3109/00048679709065514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of polydipsia-hyponatremia among patients with schizophrenia in an Asian mental hospital. METHOD Seven hundred and twenty-eight inpatients with schizophrenia were assessed for polydipsia-hyponatremia using case notes reviews, specific gravity of urine, normalised diurnal weight gain, and serum sodium levels. RESULTS One hundred and three (13.8%) patients had polydipsia, 30 (4.1%) had polydipsia-hyponatremia and 14 (1.9%) had a history of water intoxication. Eight of the 30 patients were receiving carbamazepine, three were on tricyclic antidepressants and two had diabetes mellitus and were on sulfonylureas. CONCLUSION The prevalence of water intoxication among polydipsic patients was low compared to Western studies. This could be due to different methods of assessing polyuria, or ethnic differences and/or the prohibition of smoking in our patients. Certain medications might have also contributed to hyponatremia.
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- S A Chong
- Woodbridge Hospital and Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore
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Two transcription initiation sites have been identified in the mouse mu-opioid receptor (MOR) gene at approximately -793 and -268 upstream of the translation start site. To test if the MOR gene contains two functional promoters, chimeric constructs of mouse MOR deletion fragments, fused to a luciferase reporter gene, were transiently transfected into the neuroblastoma cell line SK-N-SH, a MOR-expressing cell line, and two MOR-non-expressing cell lines. Results from transient transfection assays confirmed the existence of two functional independent promoters in the mouse MOR gene, and also revealed that the region from -1337 to -93 does not contain all the elements necessary to confer tissue-specific expression of the MOR gene.
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- Y Liang
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5121, USA
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Opiates remain the most common form of analgesic therapy in the burn patient today. Because of increased opiate requirements, optimal relief of burn pain continues to be a problem for these patients. The purpose of this article is to summarize those alternative pain control methods that appear in the literature. For instance, in minor burns acetominophen continues to be a useful first line analgesic. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) and benzodiazepine are generally combined with opiates while entonox seems to be used commonly in the adolescent patients to relieve procedural pain. Antidepressants appear to enhance opiate-induced analgesia while anticonvulsants are useful in the treatment of sympathetically maintained pain following burns. Ketamine has been extensively used during burn dressing changes but its psychological side-effects have limited its use. Clonidine, however, has shown promise in reducing pain without causing pruritus or respiratory depression. Other forms such as transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), psychological techniques, topical and systemic local anaesthetics are also useful adjuncts.
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- S K Pal
- Department of Anaesthesiology, St Andrew's Hospital, Billericay, Essex, UK
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Becker JA, Goldman MB, Alam MY, Luchins DJ. Effects of naltrexone on mannerisms and water imbalance in polydipsic schizophrenics: a pilot study. Schizophr Res 1995; 17:279-82. [PMID: 8664207 DOI: 10.1016/0920-9964(95)00011-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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In an open design, the opiate antagonist, naltrexone (25 mg bid), was added for six weeks to the neuroleptic regimen of seven inpatient polydipsic hyponatremic schizophrenics. Mannerisms and diurnal weight change improved slightly, the latter probably not as a consequence of diminished intake alone. Further studies are needed to clarify if stereotypies and polydipsia are modulated by endogenous opiates, and if opiate antagonists are of therapeutic value in this population.
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- J A Becker
- University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, IL 60637, USA
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Murray JB. Evidence for acupuncture's analgesic effectiveness and proposals for the physiological mechanisms involved. THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 1995; 129:443-61. [PMID: 7650637 DOI: 10.1080/00223980.1995.9914980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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- J B Murray
- Department of Psychology, St. John's University, Jamaica, NY 11439, USA
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Liang Y, Mestek A, Yu L, Carr LG. Cloning and characterization of the promoter region of the mouse mu opioid receptor gene. Brain Res 1995; 679:82-8. [PMID: 7648268 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00222-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Opioid compounds have potent analgesic and euphoric properties. They act with specific cell-membrane receptors which have been pharmacologically defined into three major classes, mu, kappa and delta. These receptors are highly regulated with respect to their gene expression, resulting in a temporally and spatially specific pattern of distribution for each receptor. To characterize the promoter sequence of the mu opioid receptor (MOR) gene, a mouse genomic DNA library was screened under high stringency with a rat MOR (MOR-1) cDNA probe and genomic sequences for the mouse MOR gene were isolated. From one genomic clone, a 2.3-kb EcoRI fragment, which hybridized to the 5'-end of the rat MOR-1 cDNA probe, was subcloned and sequenced. This fragment contains 1.3 kb of sequence upstream of the initiation codon, extends downstream through exon 1 and includes a portion of intron 1. Primer extension analysis using mouse brain poly (A)+ RNA identified a transcription initiation site 793 bp upstream from the translation start site. Chimeric constructs of mouse MOR deletion fragments fused to a luciferase reporter gene were transfected into a human neuroblastoma cell line, SK-N-SH, which constitutively expresses endogenous MOR. These transient expression studies indicated that the 0.2-kb region upstream from the transcription initiation site possesses a functional promoter, which directs the expression of the reporter gene in vitro and may possess promoter activity for the mouse MOR gene in vivo.
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- Y Liang
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5121, USA
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An experiment was conducted to investigate the role of the amygdala in the discriminative behavior of mice using the conditioned individual preference (CIP) method, a modified conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm. CIP training of the subject mice involved 6 consecutive days of alternate IP injections of morphine (3 mg/kg) or saline followed by associations with a stimulus mouse in one compartment of the preference box. After the CIP training, the subject mice were given a choice between the morphine-associated and the saline-associated stimulus mice. Normal and sham-operated mice showed preference for the morphine-associated stimulus mouse. On the other hand, mice receiving bilateral amygdala lesions before or after CIP training did not show any preference for either stimulus mouse. These results support the view that the amygdala influences expression and acquisition of conditioned discriminant behaviors of mice by possibly interacting centrally, through its opiate receptors, with the peripherally injected morphine.
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- C V Borlongan
- Department of Psychology, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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Zastawny RL, George SR, Nguyen T, Cheng R, Tsatsos J, Briones-Urbina R, O'Dowd BF. Cloning, characterization, and distribution of a mu-opioid receptor in rat brain. J Neurochem 1994; 62:2099-105. [PMID: 8189219 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1994.62062099.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We report the isolation and characterization of a rat cDNA clone encoding a mu-opioid receptor. This receptor, a 398 amino acid protein, shares 59% overall identity with the mouse delta- and kappa-opioid receptors. Transient expression of the receptor in COS cells revealed high-affinity binding of mu-selective opioid antagonists and agonists, with a KD for naloxone approximately 1.5 nM, and for [D-Ala2,N-Me-Phe4,Gly5-ol]-enkephalin (DAMGO) and morphine at the high-affinity site of 2-4 nM, confirming a mu-opioid pharmacological profile. Northern blotting and in situ hybridization histochemistry revealed that the mu-opioid receptor mRNA was expressed in many brain regions, including cerebral cortex, caudate putamen, nucleus accumbens, olfactory tubercle, septal nuclei, thalamus, hippocampus, and medial habenular nucleus, in keeping with the known distribution of the mu-opioid receptor.
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- R L Zastawny
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Hack R, Ebert E, Ehling G, Leist KH. Glufosinate ammonium--some aspects of its mode of action in mammals. Food Chem Toxicol 1994; 32:461-70. [PMID: 8206444 DOI: 10.1016/0278-6915(94)90043-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The broad-spectrum herbicide glufosinate ammonium is a structural analogue of glutamate and acts in plants by inhibition of glutamine synthetase leading to a complete breakdown of ammonia metabolism. Owing to the structural analogy of glufosinate ammonium to glutamate, its effect on various glutamate-utilizing systems needed to be investigated in mammals. Although in laboratory animals glufosinate ammonium causes an inhibition of glutamine synthetase activity in different tissues, this inhibition led to slight increases of glutamate and ammonia levels at high sublethal and lethal doses only. After oral administration for 28 days, glufosinate ammonium had no effect on glutathione and carbohydrate metabolism and no effect on biosynthesis of non-essential amino acids in rats and dogs. Glufosinate ammonium does not interfere with various neurotransmitter receptors in vitro and does not influence the catecholamine neurotransmitter tissue concentrations after iv application. The results of these studies show that--in contrast to the plant metabolism--in mammals the inhibition of glutamine synthetase activity in various tissues does not lead to a breakdown of ammonia metabolism. The mammalian metabolism obviously compensates for this inhibition of glutamine synthetase activity by various other metabolic pathways. It is concluded that under the conditions of recommended use of glufosinate ammonium as an active ingredient in herbicides, a detrimental effect on the health of both users and consumers is extremely unlikely.
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- R Hack
- Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Karkishchenko NN, Bardakhch'yan EA, Kharlanova NG. The ultrastructural bases of the effect of haloperidol on the brain. NEUROSCIENCE AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY 1993; 23:382-9. [PMID: 8413922 DOI: 10.1007/bf01183034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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A biosensor is defined as a device that incorporates a biological component which is either intimately connected to or integrated within a transducer. Biocatalysts, such as specialized tissues from higher animals and plants, have been incorporated into various electrochemical transducers to construct biosensors for the detection of important analytes. The receptor-based biosensors utilize isolated receptors or whole intact receptor organisms as molecular recognition elements for the detection of various important analytes including drugs, hormones, toxicants, neurotransmitters and amino acids. The immobilization of isolated receptors on transducers such as ISFETs, electric capacitors and optical fibers for biosensing has been given significant consideration recently. Intact chemoreceptor-based biosensors, in particular, offer several advantages including extremely short response time, a high degree of sensitivity, a wide range of linear response and inherent selectivity. This review highlights some of the recent advances in plant and animal tissue-based biosensors, with emphasis on historical developments.
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- D C Wijesuriya
- Hawaii Biosensor Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96822
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Itoh T, Murai S, Masuda Y, Abe E, Ohkubo N, Itsukaichi O, Shoji S. Pharmacological properties of ceruletide in the vertical and horizontal locomotor activities of mice. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1992; 43:571-6. [PMID: 1438494 DOI: 10.1016/0091-3057(92)90192-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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To clarify the pharmacological properties of ceruletide (CER) and cholecystokinin-octapeptide (CCK-8) with respect to vertical (VLA) and horizontal (HLA) locomotor activities of mice, effects of pretreatment with CER (0.5, 5, and 50 micrograms/kg, IP) and CCK-8 (5, 50, and 500 micrograms/kg, IP) on apomorphine (0.1 mg/kg, SC)- and clonidine (0.1 mg/kg, SC)-induced hypo-VLA and -HLA and on apomorphine (1 mg/kg, SC)-induced hyper-VLA and -HLA were examined. CER and CCK-8 had a dose-dependent inhibitory effect on VLA and HLA in intact mice. Pretreatment with CER had a biphasic effect (increase and decrease) on apomorphine- and clonidine-induced hypo-VLA, as well as an effect on apomorphine-induced hypo-HLA, a decreased effect on clonidine-induced hypo-HLA, and a decreased effect on apomorphine-induced hyper-VLA and -HLA. On the other hand, pretreatment with CCK-8 had no effect on apomorphine- and clonidine-induced hypo-VLA and -HLA and a decreased effect on apomorphine-induced hyper-HLA but not on hyper-VLA. These results suggest that for apomorphine- and clonidine-induced locomotion in mice CER has pharmacological properties different from those of CCK-8.
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- T Itoh
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Dentistry, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan
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Faletti A, Bassi D, Gimeno AL, Gimeno MA. Effects of beta-endorphin on spontaneous uterine contractions. Prostaglandins production and 45Ca2+ uptake in uterine strips from ovariectomized rats. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 1992; 47:29-33. [PMID: 1359570 DOI: 10.1016/0952-3278(92)90182-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The effects of beta-endorphin, Met-enkephalin, dynorphin and SKF 10047 on the constancy of the isometric developed tension (IDT) of the spontaneous contractions of uterine strips isolated from ovariectomized rats were explored. beta-endorphin (10(-6) M) was the only opioid that depressed significantly uterine constancy of IDT in a concentration dependent fashion. Naloxone, neither at 10(-8) M nor at 10(-6) M, altered the negative inotropic influence of beta-endorphin. Moreover, the basal synthesis and outputs of some prostaglandins (PGE1, PGE2 and PGF2 alpha) from rat uteri and the effect of beta-endorphin (10(-6) M), were determined. It was found that the basal synthesis and release of PGs in uteri were significantly inhibited by this endogenous opioid. The effects of beta-endorphin (10(-8), 10(-6) and 10(-5) M) on the basal; and oxytocin or A23187, induced 45Ca2+ uptake, as well as the influence of naloxone were also studied. beta-endorphin at three of the concentrations tested decreased basal uterine 45Ca2+ uptake and this action was not prevented by naloxone (10(-8) M). The presence of oxytocin and of A23187 augmented significantly 45Ca2+ uptake, an effect that was antagonized by beta-endorphin (10(-6) M). The possible role of beta-endorphin in uterine functioning via the modulation of uterine PG synthesis and Ca2+ uptake is discussed.
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- A Faletti
- Centro de Estudios Farmacológicos y Botánicos (CEFYBO). Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Takahashi M, Morita M, Niwa O, Tabei H. Highly sensitive high-performance liquid chromatography detection of catecholamine with interdigitated array microelectrodes. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-0728(92)80246-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Soskić V, Joksimović J. Solubilization of dopamine D-1 receptors with a zwitterionic detergent DCHAPS and their reconstitution. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 24:585-91. [PMID: 1387622 DOI: 10.1016/0020-711x(92)90331-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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1. Dopamine D-1 receptors of the bovine caudate nucleus were solubilized with different detergents. They were labelled with [3H]SCH 23390 and assayed by filtration through PEI-coated glass fibre filters and Sephadex G-50 columns. 2. DCHAPS was the best solubilizer among all detergents used and at 0.075% DCHAPS, 10 mg/ml protein, 30 min, 4 degrees C, gave the yield of 48.7%. 3. Reconstitution of solubilized receptors was performed using SM-2 Bio-Beads. Phosphatidylcholine did not improve reconstitution suggesting that DCHAPS solubilized sufficient amounts of the membrane phospholipids. 4. Loss of affinity of solubilized receptors to [3H]SCH 23390 binding was reversible. Apparent Kd values of 0.36 +/- 0.02, 21.3 +/- 3.2 and 0.77 +/- 0.05 nM were obtained for membrane-bound, solubilized and reconstituted receptors, respectively.
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- V Soskić
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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Pérez-Castrillón JL, Pérez-Arellano JL, García-Palomo JD, Jiménez-López A, De Castro S. Opioids depress in vitro human monocyte chemotaxis. IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY 1992; 23:57-61. [PMID: 1314788 DOI: 10.1016/0162-3109(92)90009-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Intravenous drug abusers (IDA) normally show functional defects in monocyte activity, in particular their chemotactic response. The aim of the present work was to study the action of several opioids on monocyte chemotaxis. To do so, monocytes from healthy individuals were incubated with heroin and morphine at three different concentrations (10(-5) M, 10(-6) M and 10(-7) M), with the finding of a significant depression in monocyte chemotaxis in all cases. This alteration could be due to a receptor effect or, conversely, to a non-specific effect. Accordingly, in the second phase of the study, monocytes from controls were incubated with a selective agonist of mu receptors (DAGO) and a selective agonist of delta receptors (DPDPE). In both cases a decrease in chemotactic function was observed similar to that following incubation with morphine or heroin. Preincubation of the monocytes with naloxone prevented the depression induced by both specific agonists. These findings suggest that opioids play an important role in the depression of monocyte chemotaxis observed in IDA. The results also suggest the presence of mu and delta opiate receptors in the cells of the phagocytic mononuclear system.
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Essali MA, Hirsch SR. Extending neurotransmitter hypotheses of neuroleptic action and schizophrenia beyond cell-surface receptors. The phosphoinositide signalling system provides a link between receptors and intracellular calcium. J Psychopharmacol 1992; 6:453-61. [PMID: 22291394 DOI: 10.1177/026988119200600401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- M A Essali
- Department of Psychiatry, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8RF, UK
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Ventura C, Spurgeon H, Lakatta EG, Guarnieri C, Capogrossi MC. Kappa and delta opioid receptor stimulation affects cardiac myocyte function and Ca2+ release from an intracellular pool in myocytes and neurons. Circ Res 1992; 70:66-81. [PMID: 1309318 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.70.1.66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We investigated the effects of mu, delta, and kappa opioid receptor stimulation on the contractile properties and cytosolic Ca2+ (Cai) of adult rat left ventricular myocytes. Cells were field-stimulated at 1 Hz in 1.5 mM bathing Ca2+ at 23 degrees C. The mu-agonist [D-Ala2,N-Me-Phe4,Gly5-ol]-enkephalin (10(-5) M) had no effect on the twitch. The delta-agonists methionine enkephalin and leucine enkephalin (10(-10) to 10(-6) M) and the kappa-agonist (trans-(dl)-3,4-dichloro-N-methyl-N-[2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)cyclo-hexyl]- benzeneacetamide)methanesulfonate hydrate (U-50,488H; 10(-7) to 2 x 10(-5) M) had a concentration-dependent negative inotropic action. The sustained decrease in twitch amplitude due to U-50,488H was preceded by a transient increase in contraction. The effects of delta- and kappa-receptor stimulation were antagonized by naloxone and (-)-N-(3-furyl-methyl)-alpha-normetazocine methanesulfonate, respectively. In myocytes loaded with the Ca2+ probe indo-1, the effects of leucine enkephalin (10(-8) M) and U-50,488H (10(-5) M) on the twitch were associated with similar directional changes in the Cai transient. Myofilament responsiveness to Ca2+ was assessed by the relation between twitch amplitude and systolic indo-1 transient. Leucine enkephalin (10(-8) M) had no effect, whereas U-50,488H (10(-5) M) increased myofilament responsiveness to Ca2+. We subsequently tested the hypothesis that delta and kappa opioid receptor stimulation may cause sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ depletion. The sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ content in myocytes and in a caffeine-sensitive intracellular Ca2+ store in neurons was probed in the absence of electrical stimulation via the rapid addition of a high concentration of caffeine from a patch pipette above the cell. U-50,488H and leucine enkephalin slowly increased Cai or caused Cai oscillations and eventually abolished the caffeine-triggered Cai transient. These effects occurred in both myocytes and neuroblastoma-2a cells. In cardiac myocyte suspensions U-50,488H and leucine enkephalin both caused a rapid and sustained increase in inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate. Thus, delta and kappa but not mu opioids have a negative inotropic action due to a decreased Cai transient. The decreased twitch amplitude due to kappa-receptor stimulation is preceded by a transient increase in contractility, and it occurs despite an enhanced myofilament responsiveness to Ca2+. The effects of delta and kappa opioids appear coupled to phosphatidylinositol turnover and, at least in part, may be due to sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ depletion.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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MESH Headings
- 3,4-Dichloro-N-methyl-N-(2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)-cyclohexyl)-benzeneacetamide, (trans)-Isomer
- Animals
- Calcium/metabolism
- Electric Stimulation
- Enkephalins/pharmacology
- Homeostasis
- In Vitro Techniques
- Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate/metabolism
- Male
- Myocardial Contraction
- Myocardium/cytology
- Myocardium/metabolism
- Neurons/cytology
- Neurons/metabolism
- Pyrrolidines/pharmacology
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Strains
- Receptors, Opioid/drug effects
- Receptors, Opioid, delta
- Receptors, Opioid, kappa
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- C Ventura
- Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Md 21224
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Yaster M, Nicholas E, Maxwell LG. Opioids in Pediatric Anesthesia and in the Management of Childhood Pain. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0889-8537(21)00484-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Psychoendocrinological studies have opened a new approach to understanding affective disorders. In this study, the links of affective illnesses to changes in endocrine secretions--particularly adrenal, gonadal, growth, pineal, thyroidal, and prolactin--were reviewed with the object of adding to the number of depressed whose symptoms can be relieved.
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- J B Murray
- Psychology Department, St. John's University, Jamaica, NY 11439
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