Vasopressin and adrenalectomy-induced sensitivity to morphine

European Journal of Pharmacology
A Ratka, E R De Kloet

Abstract

Arginine vasopressin, vasopressin antiserum and a specific vasopressin pressor antagonist were injected intracerebroventricularly into adrenalectomized rats before morphine-induced antinociception was tested. In these experiments we have exploited previous findings which showed that the antinociceptive effect of opioids was potentiated after adrenalectomy; rats that were adrenalectomized in the morning under basal resting conditions of the pituitary-adrenal system displayed significantly higher response latencies after morphine administration than rats adrenalectomized in the evening. These effects were measured 7 days after adrenalectomy. The same conditions were used in this study. Both, the vasopressin antiserum and the vasopressin antagonist abolished the morning adrenalectomy-induced hypersensitivity to centrally injected morphine and were not effective when administered to rats that had been adrenalectomized in the evening. The reverse was observed after intraventricular administration of vasopressin. The peptide significantly raised the sensitivity to morphine-induced antinociception of rats that had been adrenalectomized in the evening whereas it did not affect antinociception in animals that had been adrenalectomized i...Continue Reading

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