观察椎管内注射感觉神经元特异性受体选择性激动剂牛肾上腺髓质8—22肽(bovine adrenal medulla 8-22,BAM8.22)在福尔马林引起的持续性痛中对吗啡耐受的影响.结果表明,吗啡(20μg)在正常大鼠中能显著抑制福尔马林引起的痛行为,多次应用吗啡导致耐受后,其抑制痛行为的能力大大减弱(P〈0.001);吗啡耐受后,BAM8-22(0.1nm01)能翻转吗啡的耐受效应,福尔马林引起第2期抬足/舔爪持续时间和抖动次数分别减少了39.4%(P〈0.001)和25.3%(P〈0.05).每天椎管内联合应用BAM8—22(0.1nm01)和吗啡(20μg)不影响吗啡耐受的形成,但隔天给予BAM8-22则能有效延缓吗啡耐受的形成,福尔马林引起第2期缩足舔爪和抖动分别为14.7min和234.5次,与吗啡耐受鼠相比,分别减少了41.0%(P〈0.001)和24.8%(P〈0.05).然而,BAM8-22并没有完全翻转或抑制吗啡的耐受(P〈0.001).此外,连续6d给予BAM8-22后会降低吗啡在福尔马林持续痛中的抗伤害作用.证明在福尔马林引起的持续性痛中,SNSR受体参与了调制阿片受体的敏感性.同时,提示在持续性痛中,通过BAM8-22延缓或翻转吗啡耐受是利用阿片受体治疗持续性痛的有效方法.
The present study was designed to investigate the effects of bovine adrenal medulla 8-22 ( BAM8-22), an selective agonist of sensory neuron-specific receptor ( SNSR), on morphine tolerance in formalin-induced persistent pain. Intrathecal ( i. t. ) administration of morphine (20 ~xg) markedly inhibited formalin-evoked lifting/licking and flinching behaviors in naive rats, but this in- hibition effect remarkably lower in morphine tolerance when morphine was administrated i. t. for 7 days (P 〈 0. 001) . Pretreatment i. t. with BAM8-22 (0. 1 nmol) evidently reversed established morphine tolerance. Formalin-induced the time of lifting/licking and the number of flinches were re- spectively decrease 39.4% (P 〈 0. 001 ) and 25.3% (P 〈 0. 05) in second phase in formalin test, compared with morphine in tolerant rats. Co-administration of BAM8-22 (0. 1 nmol ) daily with morphine did not inhibit the development of morphine tolerance, but Co-administration of BAM8-22 (0. 1 nmol) every other day, but not daily, with morphine remarkably attenuated the development of morphine tolerance. The time of lifting/licking and the number of flinches were respectively decrease 41.0% (P 〈 0. 001 ) and 24.8% (P 〈 0.05) in second phase compared with morphine in tolerant rats. However, i.t. BAM8-22 did not completely reverse or inhibit morphine tolerance in formalin test. Moreover, antinociception of morphine were significantly weakened after repeated daily treatments with BAM8-22. These results suggested that SNSR may be able to modulate the sensitivity of opioid receptor in persistent pain. This study also demonstrated that using BAM8-22 to attenuate or reverse morphine tolerance may be a better regimen for long-term use of opioids to treat persistent pain.