• J Pain · Jul 2018

    Concurrent Assessment of the Antinociceptive and Behaviorally Disruptive Effects of Opioids in Squirrel Monkeys.

    • Sarah L Withey, Carol A Paronis, and Jack Bergman.
    • Preclinical Pharmacology Laboratory, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts. Electronic address: swithey@mclean.harvard.edu.
    • J Pain. 2018 Jul 1; 19 (7): 728-740.

    AbstractAlthough the clinical application of opioids for pain management is often hindered by undesired behavioral impairment, preclinical assays of antinociception typically do not provide information regarding the behaviorally disruptive effects of opioids that may accompany their antinociceptive effects. To address this, we modified a warm water tail withdrawal procedure to determine concurrently the effects of opioids on tail withdrawal latency (antinociception) and indices of food-maintained operant behavior (rates of responding and reinforcement density) in squirrel monkeys. Six opioid agonists were tested, and all produced dose-dependent antinociception and impairment of operant behavior. The ratio of median effective dose (ED50) values for both measures (behavioral impairment:antinociception) was used as a quantitative measure of therapeutic index. Nalbuphine had the highest ED50 ratio (4.88), reflecting antinociception with minimal behavioral disruption. Oxycodone, heroin, buprenorphine, and methadone all produced similar ED50 ratios (.82-1.14), whereas butorphanol yielded a significantly lower ED50 ratio (.17) reflecting behavioral disruption at doses producing only minimal antinociception. The antinociceptive and behaviorally disruptive effects of oxycodone and buprenorphine were further characterized using Schild analysis to calculate apparent pA2 values for antagonism of the 2 drugs by naltrexone. These analyses suggest that µ-receptor mechanisms likely mediate the antinociceptive as well as behaviorally disruptive effects of oxycodone (pA2 values: 8.13 and 8.57) and buprenorphine (pA2 values: 8.6 and 7.9).Copyright © 2018 The American Pain Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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