title: Modulation of morphine-induced antinociception by ibogaine and noribogaine.
abstract: The potential modulation of morphine antinociception by the putative anti-addictive agent ibogaine and its active metabolite (noribogaine) was investigated in rats with the radiant heat tail-flick test. Ibogaine pretreatment (40 mg/kg, i.p., 19 h) significantly decreased morphine (4 mg/kg, s.c.) antinociception, with no effects in the absence of morphine. However, co-administration of ibogaine (1-40 mg/kg, i.p.) and morphine (4 mg/kg, s.c.) exhibited a dose-dependent enhancement of morphine antinociception. Co-administration of noribogaine (40 mg/kg, i.p.) and morphine also resulted in an increase in morphine antinociception, while noribogaine pretreatment (19 h) had no effect on morphine antinociception. The results show that ibogaine acutely potentiates morphine antinociception and that noribogaine could be the active metabolite responsible for this effect. However, the inhibitory effects of a 19 h ibogaine pretreatment, which resemble ibogaine-induced inhibition of morphine's stimulant properties, cannot be accounted for by noribogaine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Albany Medical College, NY 12208, USA.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Bagal
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Hough
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Nalwalk
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Glick
mesh_terms: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004347:Drug Interactions; D007050:Ibogaine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D009020:Morphine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000187:drug effects; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs; D007050:Ibogaine; D009020:Morphine; C094385:noribogaine