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ArticleIn vivo (Athens, Greece)

Pharmacokinetics of Morphine in Rats with Adjuvant-induced Arthritis.

Yoshiaki Kimura, Mika Shibata, Mika Tamada, Noriyuki Ozaki, Kunizo Arai

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Article in In vivo (Athens, Greece). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yoshiaki KimuraFaculty of Pharmacy, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.
Mika ShibataFaculty of Pharmacy, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.
Mika TamadaFaculty of Pharmacy, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.
Noriyuki OzakiDepartment of Functional Anatomy, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.
Kunizo AraiFaculty of Pharmacy, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan arai@p.kanazawa-u.ac.jp.
Kanazawa University · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated the in vivo dynamics and analgesic effect of morphine using an adjuvant-induced arthritis (AA) rat as a model of chronic inflammation. Morphine generally binds to μ-opioid receptors in the brain to exert its effects. After several minutes, it is metabolized by glucuronidation via a UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT). Here, we showed that in AA rats, UGT activity in liver microsomes was reduced. Morphine-free serum fractions in AA rats were also decreased (control, 84.9%; AA, 63.9%) and the expression of ATP-binding cassette, sub-family B (MDR/TAP), member 1 (ABCB1), which plays a crucial role in morphine bile excretion, decreased to 23.0% that of the control group. However, we observed no significant difference between the AA and control groups regarding blood concentrations of morphine and morphine-3-glucuronide. In contrast, the analgesic effect of morphine increased 4-fold in AA rats. Our results showed that the pharmacokinetics of morphine is not changed, but the pharmacodynamics of morphine is enhanced in chronic inflammation.

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Analgesics, OpioidAnimalsArthritis, ExperimentalATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1BiomarkersBlood ProteinsDisease Models, AnimalFreund's AdjuvantGlucuronosyltransferaseInflammationMaleMicrosomes, LiverMorphineMorphine DerivativesProtein BindingRatsAnalgesics, OpioidATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1BiomarkersBlood ProteinsFreund's AdjuvantGlucuronosyltransferaseMorphinemorphine-3-glucuronideMorphine DerivativesABCB1adjuvant-induced arthritisinflammationMorphineUDP-glucuronosyltransferase

Identifiers

PMID28882946
PMCPMC5656853
OpenAlexW2750676991

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