Articles: opioid-analgesics.
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J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. · Nov 1976
Comparative StudyInteractions between narcotic analgesics and benzodiazepine derivatives on behavior in the mouse.
Interactions between the benzodiazepine derivatives, diazepam and oxazepam, and the narcotic analgesics, morphine and methadone, were evaluated on locomotor activity and in the tail-flick and hot-plate tests for analgesia in the mouse. The dose-related stimulation of locomotor activity by morphine was reduced by diazepam and oxazepam at doses which alone had no effect on locomotor activity. However, only oxazepam reduced the dose-related stimulation of locomotor activity by methadone. ⋯ In contrast to the results on locomotor activity, neither of these benzodiazepines significantly modified the dose-response curves of morphine or methadone in either test for analgesia. The mechanisms involved in the observed interactions on locomotor activity may be related to the influences of benzodiazepines and narcotic analgesics on motor efferent pathways summating in such a manner as to interfere with the ability of the mice to locomote. The present results demonstrate that prominent interactions occur between members of the benzodiazepine and narcotic analgesic classes; these interactions are dependent upon both the specific combination of drugs administered and upon the test procedure.
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Comparative Study
[Relationship between the pain-relieving action of narcotic analgesics and their effect on respiration].
Experiments with rabbits (30) and albino rats (110) demonstrated that morphine (1 mg/kg), promedol (trimeperidine) (2 mg/kg) and phentanyl (0.02 mg/kg), while raising by 21-24 per cent of the algesia threshold, produced an analgesic effect differeing in its duration (morphine-130 min, trimeperidine-70 min, phentanyl-17 min). This is attended by changes in respiration (greater on introduction of phentanyl, and lesser, following administration of morphine) and by shifts in the functional state of the tissues (greater on introduction of trimeperidine and lesser after aministration of morphine).