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Ferreira MDA, Lückemeyer DD, Martins F, Schran RG, da Silva AM, Gambeta E, Zamponi GW, Ferreira J. Pronociceptive role of spinal Ca v2.3 (R-type) calcium channels in a mouse model of postoperative pain. Br J Pharmacol 2024; 181:3594-3609. [PMID: 38812100 DOI: 10.1111/bph.16407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Revised: 03/05/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND More than 80% of patients may experience acute pain after a surgical procedure, and this is often refractory to pharmacological intervention. The identification of new targets to treat postoperative pain is necessary. There is an association of polymorphisms in the Cav2.3 gene with postoperative pain and opioid consumption. Our study aimed to identify Cav2.3 as a potential target to treat postoperative pain and to reduce opioid-related side effects. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH A plantar incision model was established in adult male and female C57BL/6 mice. Cav2.3 expression was detected by qPCR and suppressed by siRNA treatment. The antinociceptive efficacy and safety of a Cav2.3 blocker-alone or together with morphine-was also assessed after surgery. KEY RESULTS Paw incision in female and male mice caused acute nociception and increased Cav2.3 mRNA expression in the spinal cord but not in the incised tissue. Intrathecal treatment with siRNA against Cav2.3, but not with a scrambled siRNA, prevented the development of surgery-induced nociception in both male and female mice, with female mice experiencing long-lasting effects. High doses of i.t. SNX-482, a Cav2.3 channel blocker, or morphine injected alone, reversed postoperative nociception but also induced side effects. A combination of lower doses of morphine and SNX-482 mediated a long-lasting reversal of postsurgical pain in female and male mice. CONCLUSION Our results demonstrate that Cav2.3 has a pronociceptive role in the induction of postoperative pain, indicating that it is a potential target for the development of therapeutic approaches for the treatment of postoperative pain.
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- Marcella de Amorim Ferreira
- Graduate Program in Pharmacology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Graduate Program in Pharmacology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
- Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Research Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Pharmacology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Pharmacology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Graduate Program in Pharmacology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
- Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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Guo X, Zhang L, Xiao K. Effect of Kisspeptin-Type Neuropeptide on Locomotor Behavior and Muscle Physiology in the Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus. Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:ani13040705. [PMID: 36830492 PMCID: PMC9951865 DOI: 10.3390/ani13040705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2022] [Revised: 12/05/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 02/19/2023] Open
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Kisspeptins are neuropeptides encoded by the kiss1 gene, and little is known about them outside the vertebrate lineage. Two kisspeptin-type neuropeptides (KPs) have been discovered in Apostichopus japonicus (AjK1 and AjK2), an edible sea cucumber, and have been linked to reproductive and metabolic regulation. In this study, we evaluated how KPs affected locomotor behavior in one control group and two treatment groups (AjK1 and AjK2). We discovered that AjK1 had a significant dose effect, primarily by shortening the stride length and duration of movement to reduce the sea cucumber movement distance, whereas AjK2 had little inhibitory effect at the same dose. The levels of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylcholine (PC), uridine, glycine, and L-serine in the longitudinal muscle of A. japonicus treated with AjK1 differed significantly from those of the control, which may explain the observed changes in locomotor behavior. Treatment with AjK2 induced changes in aspartate levels. Our results imply that AjK1 is more likely than AjK2 to have a role in the regulation of A. japonicus locomotion.
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- Xueying Guo
- CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China
- Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
- CAS Engineering Laboratory for Marine Ranching, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Qingdao 266071, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China
- Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
- CAS Engineering Laboratory for Marine Ranching, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Qingdao 266071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Correspondence:
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- Beijing Yanshan Earth Critical Zone National Research Station, College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China
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Gibula-Tarlowska E, Kotlinska JH. Crosstalk between Opioid and Anti-Opioid Systems: An Overview and Its Possible Therapeutic Significance. Biomolecules 2020; 10:E1376. [PMID: 32998249 PMCID: PMC7599993 DOI: 10.3390/biom10101376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2020] [Revised: 09/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Opioid peptides and receptors are broadly expressed throughout peripheral and central nervous systems and have been the subject of intense long-term investigations. Such studies indicate that some endogenous neuropeptides, called anti-opioids, participate in a homeostatic system that tends to reduce the effects of endogenous and exogenous opioids. Anti-opioid properties have been attributed to various peptides, including melanocyte inhibiting factor (MIF)-related peptides, cholecystokinin (CCK), nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ), and neuropeptide FF (NPFF). These peptides counteract some of the acute effects of opioids, and therefore, they are involved in the development of opioid tolerance and addiction. In this work, the anti-opioid profile of endogenous peptides was described, mainly taking into account their inhibitory influence on opioid-induced effects. However, the anti-opioid peptides demonstrated complex properties and could show opioid-like as well as anti-opioid effects. The aim of this review is to detail the phenomenon of crosstalk taking place between opioid and anti-opioid systems at the in vivo pharmacological level and to propose a cellular and molecular basis for these interactions. A better knowledge of these mechanisms has potential therapeutic interest for the control of opioid functions, notably for alleviating pain and/or for the treatment of opioid abuse.
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- Ewa Gibula-Tarlowska
- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University, 20-059 Lublin, Poland;
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The significance of KISS1 goes beyond its original discovery as a metastasis suppressor. Its function as a neuropeptide involved in diverse physiologic processes is more well studied. Enthusiasm regarding KISS1 has cumulated in clinical trials in multiple fields related to reproduction and metabolism. But its cancer therapeutic space is unsettled. This review focuses on collating data from cancer and non-cancer fields in order to understand shared and disparate signaling that might inform clinical development in the cancer therapeutic and biomarker space. Research has focused on amino acid residues 68-121 (kisspeptin 54), binding to the KISS1 receptor and cellular responses. Evidence and counterevidence regarding this canonical pathway require closer look at the covariates so that the incredible potential of KISS1 can be realized.
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- Thuc Ly
- Department of Cancer Biology, Kansas University Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd. - MS1071, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 603203, India
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Kansas University Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd. - MS1071, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA.
- University of Kansas Cancer Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA.
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Kissorphin improves spatial memory and cognitive flexibility impairment induced by ethanol treatment in the Barnes maze task in rats. Behav Pharmacol 2020; 31:272-282. [DOI: 10.1097/fbp.0000000000000557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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This paper is the fortieth consecutive installment of the annual anthological review of research concerning the endogenous opioid system, summarizing articles published during 2017 that studied the behavioral effects of molecular, pharmacological and genetic manipulation of opioid peptides and receptors as well as effects of opioid/opiate agonists and antagonists. The review is subdivided into the following specific topics: molecular-biochemical effects and neurochemical localization studies of endogenous opioids and their receptors (1), the roles of these opioid peptides and receptors in pain and analgesia in animals (2) and humans (3), opioid-sensitive and opioid-insensitive effects of nonopioid analgesics (4), opioid peptide and receptor involvement in tolerance and dependence (5), stress and social status (6), learning and memory (7), eating and drinking (8), drug abuse and alcohol (9), sexual activity and hormones, pregnancy, development and endocrinology (10), mental illness and mood (11), seizures and neurologic disorders (12), electrical-related activity and neurophysiology (13), general activity and locomotion (14), gastrointestinal, renal and hepatic functions (15), cardiovascular responses (16), respiration and thermoregulation (17), and immunological responses (18).
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- Richard J Bodnar
- Department of Psychology and Neuropsychology Doctoral Sub-Program, Queens College, City University of New York, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY, 11367, United States.
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Gibula-Tarlowska E, Grochecki P, Silberring J, Kotlinska JH. The kisspeptin derivative kissorphin reduces the acquisition, expression, and reinstatement of ethanol-induced conditioned place preference in rats. Alcohol 2019; 81:11-19. [PMID: 30981809 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2019.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Revised: 03/25/2019] [Accepted: 04/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Research has shown that opioids are involved in the rewarding effects of ethanol. Neuropeptide FF (NPFF) has been described as an anti-opioid peptide because, in many cases, it inhibits opioid and ethanol effects in rodents. Kissorphin (KSO) is a new peptide derived from kisspeptin-10 with structural similarities to NPFF. This peptide possesses NPFF-like biological activity in vitro. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether KSO (Tyr-Asn-Trp-Asn-Ser-Phe-NH2) influences the acquisition, expression, and reinstatement of ethanol-induced conditioned place preference (ethanol-CPP) in rats. The ethanol-CPP was established (conditioning for 5 days) by intraperitoneal (i.p.) administration of ethanol (1 g/kg, 20%, w/v) using an unbiased procedure. After that, one group of rats was used in final post-conditioning testing (expression of CPP) and the other group received a priming injection of ethanol after 10 days of extinction (reinstatement of CPP). Our experiments showed that KSO, given intravenously (i.v.) at the doses of 1, 3, and 10 nmol before every ethanol administration, inhibited the acquisition and, given acutely before the post-conditioning test or before the priming dose of ethanol, inhibited the expression and reinstatement of ethanol-CPP, respectively, in a dose-dependent manner. KSO given by itself neither induced place preference nor aversion and did not alter locomotor activity and coordination of rats. These results suggest that KSO can alter rewarding/motivational effects of ethanol. These data suggest this peptide possesses an anti-opioid character.
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- Ewa Gibula-Tarlowska
- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University, Lublin, Poland.
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland; Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of Sciences, Zabrze, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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The influence of a new derivate of kisspeptin-10 - Kissorphin (KSO) on the rewarding effects of morphine in the conditioned place preference (CPP) test in male rats. Behav Brain Res 2019; 372:112043. [PMID: 31226311 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2019] [Revised: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 06/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Kissorphin (KSO) is a new peptide derived from kisspeptin-10. Previous study has indicated that this peptide displays neuropeptide FF (NPFF)-like anti-opioid activity. Herein, we examined the influence of KSO (1; 3, and 10 nmol, intravenously [i.v.]), on the rewarding action of morphine (5 mg/kg, intraperitoneally [i.p.]), using the unbiased design of the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm in rats. To test the effect of KSO on the acquisition of morphine-induced CPP, KSO and morphine were co-injected during conditioning with no drugs treatment on the test day. To investigate the effect of KSO on the expression of morphine-induced CPP, morphine alone was given during the conditioning phase (1 × 3 days) and KSO was administered 5 min prior to the placement in the CPP apparatus on the test day. To estimate the influence of KSO on the reinstatement of morphine-induced CPP, KSO was given 5 min before a priming dose of morphine (5 mg/kg, i.p.) on the reinstatement test day. The results show that KSO inhibited the acquisition, expression and reinstatement of morphine-induced CPP. The strongest effect of KSO was observed at the dose of 10 nmol (acquisition and reinstatement) or 1 nmol (expression). KSO given alone, neither induced place preference, nor aversion. Furthermore, the morphine-modulating effects of KSO were markedly antagonized by pretreatment with RF9 (10 nmol, i.v.), the NPFF receptors selective antagonist. Thus, KSO inhibited the morphine-induced CPP mainly by involving specific activation of NPFF receptors. Overall, these data further support the anti-opioid character of KSO.
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Nona CN, Hendershot CS, Lê AD. Behavioural sensitization to alcohol: Bridging the gap between preclinical research and human models. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2018; 173:15-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2018.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2017] [Revised: 07/31/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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