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ReviewPeptides2019

Exploiting endogenous opioids: Lessons learned from endomorphin 2 in the female rat.

Alan R Gintzler, Nai-Jiang Liu, Emiliya M Storman, Martin W Wessendorf

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Review in Peptides, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alan R GintzlerDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11203, USA. Electronic address: alan.gintzler@downstate.edu.
Nai-Jiang LiuDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11203, USA.
Emiliya M StormanDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11203, USA.
Martin W WessendorfDepartment of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
State University of New York · USUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

Alternatives to prescription opioids: a precision medicine approach to harnessing endogenous opioids for pain relief and circumvention of prescription opioid abuseR01DA043774 · NIDA · SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER · PI LIU, NAIJIANG, STEWART, MARK G · 2017 to 2021
$1.8M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA043774
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective management of chronic pain is demanded by ethical as well as medical considerations. Although opioid analgesics remain among the most effective pharmacotherapies for ameliorating many types of pain, their use is clouded by concerns regarding their addictive properties, underscored by the current epidemic of prescription opioid abuse and attendant deaths. Medicinal harnessing of endogenous opioid antinociception could provide a strategy for continuing to take advantage of the powerful antinociceptive properties of opioids while avoiding their abuse potential. Based on our studies of endogenous mechanism that suppress and facilitate spinal endomorphin 2 antinociception over the rat reproductive cycle, we identified multiple signaling molecules that could serve as targets for activating endogenous opioid analgesia for chronic pain management in women. Our findings emphasize the need for a precision medicine approach that includes stage of menstrual cycle as an important determinant of drug targets for (activating/harnessing) endogenous opioid antinociceptive systems/ capabilities. Utilization of drugs that harness endogenous opioid antinociception in accordance with varying physiological states represents a novel approach for effective pain management.

Indexed as

Pain ManagementAnalgesics, OpioidAnimalsEstrous CycleFemaleHumansOligopeptidesRatsSignal TransductionAnalgesics, Opioidendomorphin 2OligopeptidesAntinociceptionDynorphinEndogenous opioidsEndomorphin 2Estrogenic signalingReproductive cycleSpinal cord

Identifiers

PMID30557590
PMCPMC7173356
OpenAlexW2905345926

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