Dopamine is necessary to endogenous morphine formation in mammalian brain in vivo

C Neri, C Ghelardini, B Sotak… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
morphine was undetectable. Our data prove for the first time that dopamine is necessary for
morphine formation in vivo in mouse brain… an alternative route to dopamine formation. But the …

Endogenous morphine and its metabolites in mammals: history, synthesis, localization and perspectives

A Laux-Biehlmann, J Mouheiche, J Veriepe, Y Goumon - Neuroscience, 2013 - Elsevier
… The present review describes endogenous morphine and morphinevivo study showed
that mice with a disrupted tyrosine hydroxylase gene were unable to synthesize EM in the brain (…

In vivo and in vitro formation of morphinone from morphine in rat

S YAMANO*, A Takahashi, T Todaka, S Toki - Xenobiotica, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
… metabolism of morphine to morphinone in rat was conŪrmed by in vivo and in vitro experiments.
… this pathway is a common route in morphine metabolism in several mammalian species. …

Human brain metabolism of morphine and naloxone

A Wahlström, B Winblad, M Bixo, A Rane - Pain, 1988 - journals.lww.com
formation of morphine and naloxone was studied in vitro after incubation of the brain
Similarly, our present finding of a brain UDP-GT system is of special interest, since formation of the …

Synthesis of the skeleton of the morphine molecule by mammalian liver

CJ Weitz, KF Faull, A Goldstein - Nature, 1987 - nature.com
morphine could be synthesized in animals has long been considered' and a pathway in
mammalian brain … We now report the conversion in vivo and in vitro of reticuline to salutaridine …

Mapping of endogenous morphine‐like compounds in the adult mouse brain: Evidence of their localization in astrocytes and GABAergic cells

A Laux, AH Muller, M Miehe… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… mouse brain. In conclusion, the presence of endogenous morphine-like compounds in brain
… An identical result was obtained with brain tissue from mice perfused with PFA (in vivo; data …

Morphine metabolites

LL Christrup - Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
… M3G has been found to antagonise morphine and M6G … M3G may influence the development
of morphine tolerance. M3G … , in vitro M6G was found to be only equipotent with morphine

Endogenous formation of morphine in human cells

C Poeaknapo, J Schmidt, M Brandsch… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
… fluids contain trace amounts of morphine. Its origin in mammals has been believed to be of
dietary origin. Here, we address the question of whether morphine is of endogenous origin or …

Neurotransmitter role of endogenous morphine in CNS.

M Guarna, C Ghelardini, N Galeotti, GB Stefano… - Medical science …, 2005 - flore.unifi.it
… Endogenous morphine is present in the mammalian brain as … in vivo leads to the formation
of morphine [26]. Ascaris suum, a mammalian parasite produces morphine in mammalian

Morphine and morphine metabolite kinetics in the rat brain as assessed by transcortical microdialysis

M Barjavel, P Sandouk, M Plotkine, JM Scherrmann - Life sciences, 1994 - Elsevier
… In vitro recovery of morphine and morphine metabolites through the dialysis probe: In vitro
recovery of M, M3G and M6G through the dialysis membrane was determined by using 6 …