Abstract
Opiates are the most effective treatment for acute and chronic severe pain. However, for the fact that they provoke the development of analgesic tolerance as observed in human studies, their clinical utility is often lower. Morphine is a principal opiate, but to get an equivalent pain relief with it, the doses of administration need to be constantly increasing. However, such dose increase has a therapeutic impact by on setting morphine-induced hypersensitivity. This complex pathophysiological cycle contributes significantly to decreased quality of life in the population of subjects with chronic pain. In any case, interests in new approaches that would maintain opiate efficacy during repetitive dosing without engendering tolerance or unacceptable side-effects are growing.
Recent evidence has implicated oxidative stress in the development of pain in several pathologies and most importantly in opiate antinociceptive tolerance, caused by the presence of free radicals. This mini-review on some opioids and their possible mechanisms has dual objective: to discuss the importance and role of free radicals in maintenance of pain and induction of opiate antinociceptive tolerance; and to demonstrate that opiates are rational target for therapeutic intervention in pain management, as well as to provide a pharmacological basis for developing inhibitors of free radical biosynthesis.
Keywords: Brain, free radicals, morphine, opioids, oxidative stress, pain.
Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry
Title:Oxidative Stress and Opioids' Toxicity: An Update
Volume: 10 Issue: 4
Author(s): Hugo Juárez Olguín, David Calderón Guzmán and Gerardo Barragán Mejía
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Keywords: Brain, free radicals, morphine, opioids, oxidative stress, pain.
Abstract: Opiates are the most effective treatment for acute and chronic severe pain. However, for the fact that they provoke the development of analgesic tolerance as observed in human studies, their clinical utility is often lower. Morphine is a principal opiate, but to get an equivalent pain relief with it, the doses of administration need to be constantly increasing. However, such dose increase has a therapeutic impact by on setting morphine-induced hypersensitivity. This complex pathophysiological cycle contributes significantly to decreased quality of life in the population of subjects with chronic pain. In any case, interests in new approaches that would maintain opiate efficacy during repetitive dosing without engendering tolerance or unacceptable side-effects are growing.
Recent evidence has implicated oxidative stress in the development of pain in several pathologies and most importantly in opiate antinociceptive tolerance, caused by the presence of free radicals. This mini-review on some opioids and their possible mechanisms has dual objective: to discuss the importance and role of free radicals in maintenance of pain and induction of opiate antinociceptive tolerance; and to demonstrate that opiates are rational target for therapeutic intervention in pain management, as well as to provide a pharmacological basis for developing inhibitors of free radical biosynthesis.
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Olguín Juárez Hugo, Guzmán Calderón David and Mejía Barragán Gerardo, Oxidative Stress and Opioids' Toxicity: An Update, Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry 2013; 10 (4) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1570193X113106660028
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1570193X113106660028 |
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