期刊
NEUROSCIENCE
卷 144, 期 1, 页码 375-386出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.09.007
关键词
REM sleep; wakefulness; microdialysis; naloxone; nipecotic acid; high performance liquid chromatography
资金
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL65272, HL57120, R01 HL040881, HL40881, R01 HL065272, R01 HL057120, R01 HL057120-10] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R37 MH045361, R37 MH045361-22, MH45361, R01 MH045361] Funding Source: Medline
Morphine, a mu-opioid receptor agonist, is a commonly prescribed treatment for pain. Although highly efficacious, morphine has many unwanted side effects including disruption of sleep and obtundation of wakefulness. One mechanism by which morphine alters sleep and wakefulness may be by modulating GABAergic signaling in brain regions regulating arousal, including the pontine reticular nucleus, oral part (PnO). This study used in vivo microdialysis in unanesthetized Sprague-Dawley rat to test the hypothesis that mu-opioid receptors modulate PnO GABA levels. Validation of the high performance liquid chromatographic technique used to quantify GABA was obtained by dialyzing the PnO (n=4 rats) with the GABA reuptake inhibitor nipecotic acid (500 mu M). Nipecotic acid caused a 185 +/- 20% increase in PnO GABA levels, confirming chromatographic detection of GABA and demonstrating the existence of functional GABA transporters in rat PnO. Morphine caused a concentration-dependent decrease in PnO GABA levels (n=25 rats). Coadministration of morphine (100 mu M) with naloxone (1 mu M), a mu-opioid receptor antagonist, blocked the morphine-induced decrease in PnO GABA levels (n=5 rats). These results show for the first time that mu-opiold receptors in rat PnO modulate GABA levels. A second group of rats (n=6) was used to test the hypothesis that systemically administered morphine also decreases PnO GABA levels. I.v. morphine caused a significant (P < 0.05) decrease (19%) in PnO GABA levels relative to control i.v. infusions of saline. Finally, microinjections followed by 2 h recordings of electroencephalogram and electromyograrn tested the hypothesis that PnO morphine administration disrupts sleep (n=8 rats). Morphine significantly (P < 0.05) increased the percent of time spent in wakefulness (65%) and significantly (P < 0.05) decreased the percent of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (-53%) and non-REM sleep (-69%). The neurochemical and behavioral data suggest that morphine may disrupt sleep, at least in part, by decreasing GABAergic transmission in the PnO. (c) 2006 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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