Consequences of opiate agonist and antagonist in myocardial ischaemia suggest a role of endogenous opioid peptides in ischaemic heart disease

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Y.-S. Lee ◽  
Y.-T. Chen ◽  
M.-N. Kan ◽  
F.-K. P'eng ◽  
C.-Y. Chai ◽  
...  
1981 ◽  
Vol 219 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burt Sharp ◽  
John E. Morley ◽  
Harold E. Carlson ◽  
Jody Gordon ◽  
Jacqueline Briggs ◽  
...  

1985 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 1415-1420 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Weinberger ◽  
R. A. Steinbrook ◽  
D. B. Carr ◽  
E. R. von Gal ◽  
J. E. Fisher ◽  
...  

Though administration of opioid peptides depresses ventilation and ventilatory responsiveness, the role of endogenous opioid peptides in modulating ventilatory responsiveness is not clear. We studied the interaction of endogenous opioids and ventilatory responses in 12 adult male volunteers by relating hypercapnic responsiveness to plasma levels of immunoactive beta-endorphin and by administering the opiate antagonist naloxone. Ventilatory responsiveness to hypercapnia was not altered by pretreatment with naloxone, and this by itself suggests that endogenous opioids have no role in modulating this response. However, there was an inverse relationship between basal levels of immunoactive beta-endorphin in plasma and ventilatory responsiveness to CO2. Furthermore, plasma beta-endorphin levels rose after short-term hypercapnia but only when subjects had been pretreated with naloxone. We conclude that measurement of plasma endorphin levels suggests relationships between endogenous opioid peptides and ventilatory responses to CO2 that are not apparent in studies limited to assessing the effect of naloxone.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 1953-1954 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Odou ◽  
R. Azar ◽  
M. Luyckx ◽  
C. Brunet ◽  
T. Dine

Pharmacology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 89 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 22-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela P. Alves ◽  
Patrícia G. da Motta ◽  
Patrícia P. Lima ◽  
Celso M. Queiroz-Junior ◽  
Marcelo V. Caliari ◽  
...  

1984 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 339-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAMELA M. GILBEAU ◽  
RAMONA G. ALMIREZ ◽  
JOHN W. HOLADAY ◽  
CAROL GRACE SMITH

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