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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11120-4
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- European Union Seventh Framework programme (FP7-Health-Innovation) [1602919]
- Universite de Strasbourg
- Frame program Investissements d'Avenir [ANR-10-IDEX-0002-02, ANR-10-LABX-0030-INRT]
- Ministere de l'Education Nationale, de la Recherche et de la Technologie
- INSERM
- CNRS
- LABEX [ANR-10-LABX-0034 Medalis]
- BBSRC [BB/F000227/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G9717869, G0901905] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F000227/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0901905, G9717869] Funding Source: researchfish
- Wellcome Trust [101054/Z/13/Z, 200183/Z/15/Z] Funding Source: researchfish
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Opiates are potent analgesics but their clinical use is limited by side effects including analgesic tolerance and opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH). The Opiates produce analgesia and other adverse effects through activation of the mu opioid receptor (MOR) encoded by the Oprm1 gene. However, MOR and morphine metabolism involvement in OIH have been little explored. Hence, we examined MOR contribution to OIH by comparing morphine-induced hyperalgesia in wild type (WT) and MOR knockout (KO) mice. We found that repeated morphine administration led to analgesic tolerance and hyperalgesia in WT mice but not in MOR KO mice. The absence of OIH in MOR KO mice was found in both sexes, in two KO global mutant lines, and for mechanical, heat and cold pain modalities. In addition, the morphine metabolite morphine-3beta-D-glucuronide (M3G) elicited hyperalgesia in WT but not in MOR KO animals, as well as in both MOR flox and MOR-Nav1.8 sensory neuron conditional KO mice. M3G displayed significant binding to MOR and G-protein activation when using membranes from MORtransfected cells or WT mice but not from MOR KO mice. Collectively our results show that MOR is involved in hyperalgesia induced by chronic morphine and its metabolite M3G.
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