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Measuring naloxone antagonism of discriminative opioid stimulus
Authors:E C Krimmer  H Barry
Abstract:The numerous studies of opioids as discriminative stimuli, beginning in 1971, have shown specificity, similarity of several opioids, differences in potency (fentanyl greater than heroin greater methadone greater than morphine), and antagonism by naloxone and naltrexone. The discriminative opioid stimulus is differentiated from those of other classes of drugs, such as sedatives and anxiolytics. Greater potency of the opioid stimulus has been found in rats after subcutaneous (s.c.) than intraperitoneal administration. The discriminative opioid stimulus and its antagonism by naloxone or naltrexone have been demonstrated in rats, squirrel monkeys, gerbils, and pigeons. A few studies have quantified the competitive agonist-antagonist interaction at the receptor by calculating the pA2, which reflects the dose of the antagonist that requires doubling the agonist dose to obtain the original agonist response. The pA2 for naloxone is the same in groups of rats trained to discriminate different doses of morphine (1, 2, or 4 mg/kg s.c.) from saline. Higher pA2 values in tests after fentanyl and methadone than after heroin and morphine in rats trained to discriminate fentanyl (0.04 mg/kg s.c.) from saline reflect greater susceptibility of the synthetic than the natural exogenous opioids to antagonism by naloxone. Different pA2 values are usually interpreted as indicating differences among populations of receptors.
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