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ArticleArchives of toxicology2025

In vivo pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and brain concentration comparison of fentanyl and para-fluorofentanyl in rats.

Jeremy R Canfield, Jon E Sprague

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Article in Archives of toxicology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Antinociceptive Effect and Hyperalgesia of Fentanyl and Its Analogues.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jeremy R CanfieldBowling Green State University, The Ohio Attorney General's Center for the Future of Forensic Science, 116 Life Science Building, Bowling Green, OH, 43403, USA.
Jon E SpragueBowling Green State University, The Ohio Attorney General's Center for the Future of Forensic Science, 116 Life Science Building, Bowling Green, OH, 43403, USA. jesprag@bgsu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0349-5072

Funding

Ohio Attorney General's Office 10010656GR
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2022, para-fluorofentanyl (pFF) rose to the 6th most reported drug and the most reported fentanyl analog in the United States according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). pFF differs from fentanyl by the addition of a single fluorine group. To date, pFF has not been extensively evaluated in vivo and is frequently seen in combination with fentanyl. In the present study, the pharmacodynamic (PD) and pharmacokinetic (PK) properties and brain region-specific concentrations of pFF were evaluated in male Sprague-Dawley rats and compared to fentanyl. A 300 μg/kg subcutaneous dose of fentanyl or pFF was administered to assess PD and PK parameters as well as brain region concentrations. PD parameters were evaluated via a tail flick test to evaluate analgesia and core body temperature to measure hypothermia, a surrogate marker of overall opioid toxicity. Fentanyl and pFF were found to be equally active at the tested dose in terms of tail flick response with both compounds producing an analgesic response that lasted up to 240 min post-drug treatment. pFF induced a significantly greater hypothermic effect compared to fentanyl with a maximum temperature decrease of -5.6 ℃. Plasma PK parameters (T

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Analgesics, OpioidBrainFentanylAnimalsBody TemperatureMaleRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyTissue DistributionAnalgesics, OpioidFentanylBrain region concentrationsFentanylPara-fluorofentanylPharmacodynamicsPharmacokineticsRat

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PMID39419833
PMCPMC11748481

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