ArticleEuropean journal of pharmacology2018
Bilateral carotid sinus nerve transection exacerbates morphine-induced respiratory depression.
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- Loss of ganglioglomerular nerve input to the carotid body impacts the hypoxic ventilatory response in freely-moving rats.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Male histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) knockout mice have enhanced ventilatory responses to hypoxic challenge.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Carotid Body Dysfunction and Mechanisms of Disease.Advances in anatomy, embryology, and cell biology · 2023Article
- S-nitroso-L-cysteine stereoselectively blunts the adverse effects of morphine on breathing and arterial blood gas chemistry while promoting analgesia.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2022Article
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- L-cysteine methyl ester overcomes the deleterious effects of morphine on ventilatory parameters and arterial blood-gas chemistry in unanesthetized rats.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Opioid-induced respiratory depression (OIRD) involves decreased sensitivity of ventilatory control systems to decreased blood levels of oxygen (hypoxia) and elevated levels of carbon dioxide (hypercapnia). Understanding the sites and mechanisms by which opioids elicit respiratory depression is pivotal for finding novel therapeutics to prevent and/or reverse OIRD. To examine the contribution of carotid body chemoreceptors OIRD, we used whole-body plethysmography to evaluate hypoxic (HVR) and hypercapnic (HCVR) ventilatory responses including changes in frequency of breathing, tidal volume, minute ventilation and inspiratory drive, after intravenous injection of morphine (10 mg/kg) in sham-operated (SHAM) and in bilateral carotid sinus nerve transected (CSNX) Sprague-Dawley rats. In SHAM rats, morphine produced sustained respiratory depression (e.g., decreases in tidal volume, minute ventilation and inspiratory drive) and reduced the HVR and HCVR responses. Unexpectedly, morphine-induced suppression of HVR and HCVR were substantially greater in CSNX rats than in SHAM rats. This suggests that morphine did not compromise the function of the carotid body-chemoafferent complex and indeed, that the carotid body acts to defend against morphine-induced respiratory depression. These data are the first in vivo evidence that carotid body chemoreceptor afferents defend against rather than participate in OIRD in conscious rats. As such, drugs that stimulate ventilation by targeting primary glomus cells and/or chemoafferent terminals in the carotid bodies may help to alleviate OIRD.
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