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Punishment and reinforcement by opioid receptor agonists in a choice procedure in rats. Behav Pharmacol 2020; 30:335-342. [PMID: 30320606 DOI: 10.1097/fbp.0000000000000436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Intravenous (i.v.) drug self-administration remains the 'gold standard' for assessing abuse potential of drugs. Failure of a drug to maintain self-administration might indicate merely the absence of positive-reinforcing effects but might also indicate presence of aversive effects. Sensitivity to aversive effects is thought to affect the initiation and maintenance of drug use as well as relapse. Choice procedures are used to study positive-reinforcing effects of drugs and to a much lesser extent to study punishing effects of drugs. Experiment 1 compared the μ-opioid receptor agonist remifentanil (0.001-0.01 mg/kg/infusion), the κ-opioid receptor agonist spiradoline (0.0056-0.056 mg/kg/infusion), and histamine (1.0 mg/kg/infusion) in rats choosing between a food pellet only and an i.v. infusion+a food pellet. To test whether a history with one punishing drug affects the punishing effects of a second drug, experiment 2 compared sensitivity with spiradoline in rats with and without a history of histamine punishment. All rats predominantly chose a pellet alone when histamine+a pellet was the alternative, and they predominantly chose remifentanil+a pellet over a pellet alone. In experiment 2, spiradoline was punishing in rats with a history of histamine punishment but not drug-naive rats. This food choice procedure is sensitive to reinforcing and punishing effects of different drugs in the same subjects, suggesting that the procedure is well-suited for studying drug mixtures (e.g. μ and κ agonists) and the impact of different physiological conditions (e.g. pain) on reinforcement and punishment.
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Beck TC, Hapstack MA, Beck KR, Dix TA. Therapeutic Potential of Kappa Opioid Agonists. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2019; 12:ph12020095. [PMID: 31226764 PMCID: PMC6631266 DOI: 10.3390/ph12020095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2019] [Revised: 06/12/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Many original research articles have been published that describe findings and outline areas for the development of kappa-opioid agonists (KOAs) as novel drugs; however, a single review article that summarizes the broad potential for KOAs in drug development does not exist. It is well-established that KOAs demonstrate efficacy in pain attenuation; however, KOAs also have proven to be beneficial in treating a variety of novel but often overlapping conditions including cardiovascular disease, pruritus, nausea, inflammatory diseases, spinal anesthesia, stroke, hypoxic pulmonary hypertension, multiple sclerosis, addiction, and post-traumatic cartilage degeneration. This article summarizes key findings of KOAs and discusses the untapped therapeutic potential of KOAs in the treatment of many human diseases.
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- Tyler C Beck
- Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 280 Calhoun Street, QF204, Charleston, SC 29424-2303, USA.
- College of Medicine, 173 Ashley Ave., Charleston, SC 29424-2303, USA.
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, 500 W 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210-9998, USA.
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- Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 280 Calhoun Street, QF204, Charleston, SC 29424-2303, USA.
- JT Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 300 West Coleman Blvd., Suite 203, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464-2303, USA.
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Minervini V, Lu HY, Padarti J, Osteicoechea DC, France CP. Interactions between kappa and mu opioid receptor agonists: effects of the ratio of drugs in mixtures. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2018; 235:2245-2256. [PMID: 29785554 PMCID: PMC6045970 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-018-4920-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2017] [Accepted: 04/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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RATIONALE Pain is the leading reason for seeking health care, and mu opioid receptor agonists continue to be prescribed despite well-documented adverse effects. Kappa opioid receptor agonists have antinociceptive effects with little to no abuse liability and might be useful for treating pain in mixtures. Kappa:mu opioid mixtures might be useful if therapeutic effects of each drug can be selectively increased while reducing or avoiding the adverse effects that occur with larger doses of each drug alone. OBJECTIVE This study characterized the effects of the kappa opioid receptor agonist spiradoline alone (0.32-56 mg/kg) and in 1:10, 1:3, 1:1, and 3:1 mixtures with the mu opioid receptor agonists morphine (1.0-32 mg/kg) and etorphine (1-10 μg/kg) on warm water tail-withdrawal latency, body temperature, responding for food, and fecal output in male Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 24). RESULTS Antinociceptive effects were greater than additive for 1:10 and 1:3 spiradoline:morphine mixtures and for 1:10, 1:3, and 1:1 spiradoline:etorphine mixtures. The potency of spiradoline to produce hypothermia was greater with 1:3 and 3:1 spiradoline:etorphine mixtures but not with 1:10 or 1:1 mixtures or with any spiradoline:morphine mixture. The effects of 1:3 spiradoline:morphine on responding for food were additive, whereas 1:1 and 3:1 were greater than additive. Spiradoline did not significantly alter morphine-induced decreases in fecal output. CONCLUSIONS Overall, mixtures of kappa and mu opioids might have therapeutic potential for treating pain, particularly when the mixture has a greater ratio of mu to kappa agonist. If adverse effects of each constituent drug are reduced or avoided, then kappa:mu mixtures might be advantageous to mu opioids alone.
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MESH Headings
- Analgesics, Opioid/metabolism
- Analgesics, Opioid/pharmacology
- Analgesics, Opioid/therapeutic use
- Animals
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Male
- Morphine/metabolism
- Morphine/pharmacology
- Morphine/therapeutic use
- Pain/drug therapy
- Pain/metabolism
- Pain Measurement/drug effects
- Pain Measurement/methods
- Pyrrolidines/metabolism
- Pyrrolidines/pharmacology
- Pyrrolidines/therapeutic use
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Receptors, Opioid, kappa/agonists
- Receptors, Opioid, kappa/metabolism
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/agonists
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/metabolism
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Affiliation(s)
- Vanessa Minervini
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, Mail Code 7764, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA
- Addiction Research, Treatment and Training (ARTT) Center of Excellence, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, Mail Code 7764, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA
- Addiction Research, Treatment and Training (ARTT) Center of Excellence, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, Mail Code 7764, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA
- Addiction Research, Treatment and Training (ARTT) Center of Excellence, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, Mail Code 7764, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA
- Addiction Research, Treatment and Training (ARTT) Center of Excellence, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, Mail Code 7764, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA.
- Addiction Research, Treatment and Training (ARTT) Center of Excellence, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, USA.
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Tomek SE, Olive MF. Social Influences in Animal Models of Opiate Addiction. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2018; 140:81-107. [PMID: 30193710 DOI: 10.1016/bs.irn.2018.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Opiate addiction has reached an epidemic prevalence in recent years, yet social influences on the use and abuse of opiates has been widely understudied. In particular, the neurobiological substrates of opiate addiction and their modulation by social influences are largely unknown, perhaps due to the lack of widespread incorporation of social variables into animal models of opiate addiction. As reviewed here, animal models such as oral and intravenous drug self-administration, conditioned place preference, behavioral sensitization, and the effects of various stressors, have been useful in identifying some of the neurochemical circuitry that mediate social influences on opiate addiction. However, it is clear from our review that newer paradigms that incorporate various social elements are greatly needed to provide more translational insights into the neurobiological basis of opiate addiction. These elements include social and environmental enrichment, presence of conspecifics, and procedures that require subjects to exert effort to engage in prosocial behavior. A wider implementation of social variables into animal models of opiate addiction will help inform neurobehavioral strategies to increase the efficacy of treatment.
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- Seven E Tomek
- Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States.
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Harland AA, Pogozheva ID, Griggs NW, Trask TJ, Traynor JR, Mosberg HI. Placement of Hydroxy Moiety on Pendant of Peptidomimetic Scaffold Modulates Mu and Kappa Opioid Receptor Efficacy. ACS Chem Neurosci 2017; 8:2549-2557. [PMID: 28796483 PMCID: PMC5691919 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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In
an effort to expand the structure–activity relationship (SAR)
studies of a series of mixed-efficacy opioid ligands, peptidomimetics
that incorporate methoxy and hydroxy groups around a benzyl or 2-methylindanyl
pendant on a tetrahydroquinoline (THQ) core of the peptidomimetics
were evaluated. Compounds containing a methoxy or hydroxy moiety in
the o- or m-positions increased
binding affinity to the kappa opioid receptor (KOR), whereas compounds
containing methoxy or hydroxy groups in the p-position
decreased KOR affinity and reduced or eliminated efficacy at the mu
opioid receptor (MOR). The results from a substituted 2-methylindanyl
series aligned with the findings from the substituted benzyl series.
Our studies culminated in the development of 8c, a mixed-efficacy
MOR agonist/KOR agonist with subnanomolar binding affinity for both
MOR and KOR.
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- Aubrie A. Harland
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Interdepartmental Program in Medicinal Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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Giacometti RD, Duchek J, Werner L, Husni AS, McCurdy CR, Cutler SJ, Cox DP, Hudlicky T. Heteroatom analogues of hydrocodone: synthesis and biological activity. J Org Chem 2013; 78:2914-25. [PMID: 23397939 PMCID: PMC3618612 DOI: 10.1021/jo3026753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Heteroatom analogues of hydrocodone, in which the N-methyl functionality was replaced with oxygen, sulfur, sulfoxide, and sulfone, were prepared by a short sequence from the ethylene glycol ketal of hydrocodone; a carbocyclic analogue of bisnorhydrocodone was also prepared. The compounds were tested for receptor binding and revealed moderate levels of activity for the sulfone analogue of hydrocodone.
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- Robert D. Giacometti
- Chemistry Department and Centre for Biotechnology, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
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- Chemistry Department and Centre for Biotechnology, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
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- Chemistry Department and Centre for Biotechnology, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, 419 Faser Hall The University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, 419 Faser Hall The University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, 419 Faser Hall The University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
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- Noramco, Inc., 503 Carr Road, Suite 200, Wilmington, DE 19809, USA
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- Chemistry Department and Centre for Biotechnology, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
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