Hydrocodone is a semisynthetic opioid, which has been used for decades as a short-acting analgesic combined with acetaminophen (or less commonly ibuprofen). Several long-acting, non-acetaminophen-containing hydrocodone formulations are undergoing trials in the US under the auspices of the US Food and Drug Administration, and may be available shortly. This article reviews some of the advantages ...

background: morphine and lidocaine are known to influence the perception of pain. the present study sought to determine the influence of local administration of morphine on lidocaine-induced analgesia in morphine non-dependent (mnd), morphine dependent (md) and morphine withdrawal (mw) animals. methods: adult male wistar rats were divided into four groups: control, mnd, md and mw rats. lidocain...

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Purpose GD2 is highly expressed in neuroblastoma (NB) and specifically recognized by antibodies ch14.18. Immunotherapy with bolus infusion of ch14.18 in combination with cytokines prolonged survival in patients at risk for relapse but was associated with substantial toxicity, in particular severe pain, requiring i.v. morphine [EJM 2010]. In an attempt to reduce the pain side effect associated w...

Abstract Background In humans, the drug metabolizing enzyme CYP2D6 is highly polymorphic resulting in substantial differences metabolism of drugs including anti-arrhythmics, neuroleptics, and opioids. The objective this study was to phenotype a population 100 horses from five different breeds assess metabolic activity equine homolog using codeine as probe drug. Administration common method used...

The antinociceptive and ventilatory effects of morphine and other opioid agonists were determined in three rhesus monkeys during a period of morphine maintenance, as well as before and after the chronic exposure to morphine. Before the onset of the daily dosing regimen, morphine increased tail-withdrawal latencies from 50 degrees C water, with an ED50 of 6.4 +/- 2.1 mg/kg. Daily injection of 3....

this research was designed to study sexual differences in place conditioning induced by morphine in offspring born of female wistar rats mated with drug-naïve males. mothers were exposed to morphine during the 14th-16th days of gestational. control dams were simply saline-injected. female and male virgin offspring born of morphine-treated or saline-treated mothers were separately housed until b...

Morphine-3- and morphine-6-glucuronide are morphine's major metabolites. As morphine-6-glucuronide produces stronger analgesia than morphine, we investigated the effects of acute and chronic morphine glucuronides on adenylyl cyclase (AC) activity. Using COS-7 cells cotransfected with representatives of the nine cloned AC isozymes, we show that AC-I and V are inhibited by acute morphine and morp...

BACKGROUND Opiates affect blood factors as well as pain and inflammation in a gender-dependent manner. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of morphine on serum glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, and urea in gonadectomized and inflammation conditions. METHODS Animals were divided as follows: control group, carrageenan and chronic morphine recipients, acute morphine recip...