Publication Date:
1982-08-27
Description:
Small doses of endotoxin evoked a dramatic biphasic response of opioid peptide secretion into blood in sheep. The first phase began within minutes and coincided with a brief hypertensive response to endotoxin well before the appearance of fever or hypotension. The ratio of beta-endorphin to beta-lipotropin fell abruptly at the onset of the second phase of release, suggesting early depletion of a pool rich in beta-endorphin and subsequent emergence of a pool rich in unprocessed precursor. The concentration of cerebrospinal fluid opioids increased tenfold during the second phase. Naloxone administration augmented endotoxin-induced opioid secretion in both early and late phases, suggesting a short-loop feedback regulation of stress-induced endorphin secretion.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Carr, D B -- Bergland, R -- Hamilton, A -- Blume, H -- Kasting, N -- Arnold, M -- Martin, J B -- Rosenblatt, M -- AM 07028-06/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- AM 26252/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Aug 27;217(4562):845-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6285473" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Blood Pressure/drug effects
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Endorphins/blood/cerebrospinal fluid/*secretion
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Endotoxins/*pharmacology
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Escherichia coli
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Feedback
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Kinetics
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Naloxone/pharmacology
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Peptide Fragments/blood/cerebrospinal fluid
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Sheep
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beta-Endorphin
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
