Respiratory depression and brain hypoxia induced by opioid drugs: Morphine, oxycodone, heroin, and fentanyl

EA Kiyatkin - Neuropharmacology, 2019 - Elsevier
Opioid drugs are important tools to alleviate pain of different origins, but they have strong
addictive potential and their abuse at higher doses often results in serious health …

Opioid use disorder and the brain: a clinical perspective

K Herlinger, A Lingford‐Hughes - Addiction, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Opioid use disorder (OUD) has gained increasing publicity and interest during recent years,
with many countries describing problems of epidemic proportions with regard to opioid use …

Interruption of continuous opioid exposure exacerbates drug-evoked adaptations in the mesolimbic dopamine system

EM Lefevre, MT Pisansky, C Toddes… - …, 2020 - nature.com
Drug-evoked adaptations in the mesolimbic dopamine system are postulated to drive opioid
abuse and addiction. These adaptations vary in magnitude and direction following different …

Endogenous opiates and behavior: 2019

RJ Bodnar - Peptides, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper is the forty-second consecutive installment of the annual anthological review of
research concerning the endogenous opioid system, summarizing articles published during …

6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM), not morphine, is responsible for the rapid neural effects induced by intravenous heroin

D Perekopskiy, EA Kiyatkin - ACS chemical neuroscience, 2019 - ACS Publications
Heroin rapidly enters the CNS but is quickly metabolized into 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-
MAM) and then morphine. Although morphine is often thought to mediate heroin's neural …

Cross-journal Call for Papers on “Opioids and Respiratory Depression”

TS Moreira, NJ Burgraff, LA Shimoda… - … of Physiology-Lung …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The opioid health crisis is a complex and multifaceted public health emergency that has 34
been unfolding across the globe, with particularly devastating impacts in the United States. It …

No evidence of abnormal metabolic or inflammatory activity in the brains of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from a preliminary study using whole-brain …

C Mueller, JC Lin, HH Thannickal, A Daredia… - Clinical …, 2020 - Springer
Introduction/objectives Many individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) report persistent
fatigue even after management of peripheral disease activity. This study used whole-brain …

Machine learning for infection risk prediction in postoperative patients with non-mechanical ventilation and intravenous neurotargeted drugs

Y Du, H Shi, X Yang, W Wu - Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Drug efficacy can be improved by understanding the effects of anesthesia on the
neurovascular system. In this study, we used machine learning algorithms to predict the risk …

[PDF][PDF] Interruption of Continuous Opioid Exposure Exacerbates Drug-Evoked Adaptations in Brain Function and Behavior

EM Lefevre, MT Pisansky, C Toddes… - … Electron Microsc Meet …, 2019 - researchgate.net
Background: Drug-evoked adaptations in the mesolimbic dopamine system drive opioid
abuse and addiction, but these adaptations vary in magnitude and direction following …