Naloxone does not Antagonize the Anesthetic‐Induced Depression of Nociceptor‐Driven Spinal Cord Response in Spinal Cats
- 30 December 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 25 (6) , 526-532
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-6576.1981.tb01699.x
Abstract
The effects of several anesthetics on spinal cord nociceptive neural mechanisms and their interactions with the opiate antagonist, naloxone, were studied in acute, spinal cord transected cats. Intra‐arterial injection of bradykinin was used as the noxious test stimulus. Spontaneous activity and the neural response induced by bradykinin were recorded by the multi‐unit activity technique in the lateral funiculus of the spinal cord. Naloxone, 0.1 or 2.0 mg/kg i.v., had little effect on the bradykinin‐induced response, but enhanced the spontaneous firing of the lateral funiculus significantly. Fentanyl, 30 μg/kg i.v., depressed both the bradykinin‐induced response and spontaneous firing. These effects of fentanyl were antagonized completely by naloxone, 0.1 mg/kg i.v. Nitrous oxide, thiamylal, halothane and ether depressed the bradykinin‐induced response considerably, but it was not antagonized by naloxone, 0.1–2.0 mg/kg i.v. Enflurane had little effect on the bradykinin‐induced response. The effects of these anesthetics on spontaneous firing were divergent: nitrous oxide enhanced it while other drugs depressed it, to various degrees. All these data suggest that the neural and/or neurochemical mechanisms of anesthetic‐induced analgesia differ from mechanisms related to opioids.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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