title: Effects of kappa-opioid receptor agonists and morphine on food intake and urinary output in food-deprived and nondeprived rats.
abstract: The effects of kappa-opioid receptor agonists, bremazocine, U-50, 488H and tifluadom and of a mu-opioid receptor agonist, morphine, on food intake and urinary output in food-deprived and nondeprived Sprague-Dawley rats was determined. In food-deprived animals, intraperitoneal administration of bremazocine at 0.1 mg/kg increased food intake but at 1.0 and 10.0 mg/kg doses decreased it. Tifluadom (0.1-10.0 mg/kg) had no effect on food intake. U-50,488H at 1.0 mg/kg increased food intake, whereas 10.0 mg/kg dose decreased the food consumption. In nondeprived rats, the kappa-opioid receptor agonists failed to produce any effect on food consumption. In food-deprived rats, all the three kappa-opioid receptor agonists increased the urinary output at the highest dose (10 mg/kg). In nondeprived rats similar effects as in food-deprived rats were observed except bremazocine increased urinary output at all the doses used. These results with kappa-opioid agonists may be related to either the existence of more than one population of kappa-opioid receptors or their differential actions at the opioid receptor types.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacodynamics, University of Illinois, Chicago 60612.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ramarao
authors.forename: H N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Bhargava
mesh_terms: D019900:3,4-Dichloro-N-methyl-N-(2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)-cyclohexyl)-benzeneacetamide, (trans)-Isomer; D000818:Animals; D001569:Benzodiazepines / Q000494:pharmacology; D001575:Benzomorphans / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000187:drug effects*; D005508:Food Deprivation / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009020:Morphine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011759:Pyrrolidines / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D011957:Receptors, Opioid; D017473:Receptors, Opioid, kappa; D013997:Time Factors; D014554:Urination / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D001575:Benzomorphans; D011759:Pyrrolidines; D011957:Receptors, Opioid; D017473:Receptors, Opioid, kappa; D001569:Benzodiazepines; D019900:3,4-Dichloro-N-methyl-N-(2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)-cyclohexyl)-benzeneacetamide, (trans)-Isomer; D009020:Morphine; C027248:bremazocine; C035470:tifluadom