Sex differences in innate immunity and its impact on opioid pharmacology

HH Doyle, AZ Murphy - Journal of neuroscience research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… The antinociceptive effects of opiates are mediated, in part, through removal of GABA A -…
been indirectly investigating sex differences in immune-derived pain and analgesia for quite …

TRPV1 promotes opioid analgesia during inflammation

L Basso, R Aboushousha, CY Fan, M Iftinca, H Melo… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
… Using the CFA model of chronic inflammatory pain, we evaluated peripheral immune-derived
endogenous opioid antinociception (6, 32–35) in WT and TRPV1 −/− mice by measuring …

Peripheral opioid receptor blockade enhances epithelial damage in piroxicam-accelerated colitis in IL-10-deficient mice

X Mas-Orea, M Sebert, M Benamar, C Petitfils… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Immune-derived opioids exhibit anti-inflammatory activities in Th1/Th17-driven colitis because
of their propensity to favor the commitment of lymphocytes towards a Th2 phenotype [45,…

µ‐opioid receptor, β‐endorphin, and cannabinoid receptor‐2 are increased in the colonic mucosa of irritable bowel syndrome patients

G Dothel, L Chang, W Shih, MR Barbaro… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… and peripheral nervous system9 but is also expressed by immune cells, and immune-derived
β-… β-END released by immune cells might also exert antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory …

Opioidergic effects on enteric and sensory nerves in the lower GI tract: basic mechanisms and clinical implications

PA Hughes, SP Costello, RV Bryant… - American Journal of …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
… that immune-derived opioidsimmune-derived opioids may inhibit ENS activity during IBD,
and, therefore, their inhibition may worsen diarrhea, evidence that immune-derived opioids

Chronic pain and cannabinoids. Great expectations or a christmas carol

D Pascual, EM Sánchez-Robles, MM García… - Biochemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
… Moreover, its analogy with the opioid system in terms of … antinociceptive fiber tracts as a
likely site and mechanism of action [25]. … Moreover, immune-derived factors might either induce …

Modulation of the negative affective dimension of pain: focus on selected neuropeptidergic system contributions

FF Caputi, L Rullo, S Stamatakos, S Candeletti… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
opioid system has also been obtained from inflammatory pain and immune-derived peripheral
antinociception … Indeed, it is known that the release of endogenous opioid peptides by …

Enkephalinase inhibitors, potential therapeutics for the future treatment of diarrhea predominant functional gastrointestinal disorders

A Szymaszkiewicz, M Storr, J Fichna… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… Furthermore, we discuss the antinociceptive effects related to an … Endogenous opioids and
opioid degrading enzymes … main source of immune derived β-endorphin in human peripheral

Molecular mechanisms involved in making periodontitis–A painless disease entity

SM Rathi - Journal of Oral Research and Review, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… This antinociception may be because of certain bacteria, such as Lactobacillus reuteri
DSM … activation of opioid receptors on sensory nerves by immune-derived opioid peptides. …

Dynorphin 1-17 and its N-terminal biotransformation fragments modulate lipopolysaccharide-stimulated nuclear factor-kappa B nuclear translocation, interleukin-1beta …

SS Fazalul Rahiman, M Morgan, P Gray, PN Shaw… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… –17) opioid peptide produces antinociception following binding to the kappa-opioid peptide
(… and yields a unique set of opioid and non-opioid fragments. Some of these major fragments …