Effect of estrogen on morphine- and oxycodone-induced antinociception in a female femur bone cancer pain model

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• 作者：Hiroko Ono ; Atsushi Nakamura ; Toshiyuki Kanemasa ; Gaku Sakaguchi ; Shunji Shinohara ; ^{shunji.shinohara@shionogi.co.jp" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：FBC ; femur bone cancer ; OVX ; ovariectomy ; OVX+E ; ovariectomy+estrogen ; OPRM1 ; μ-opioid receptor gene 1 ; OPRK1 ; κ-opioid receptor gene 1 ; OPRD1 ; δ-opioid receptor gene 1 ; PDYN ; prodynorphin ; PENK ; proenkephalin ; POMC ; proopiomelanocortin ; nor-BNI ; nor-binaltorphimine ; β-FNA ; β-funaltrexamine
• 刊名：European Journal of Pharmacology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：15 February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：773
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-12
• 全文大小：2510 K

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Although estrous cycle has been reported to influence antiociceptive effect of morphine in several pain conditions, its effect on cancer pain is not well established. We investigated the effect of estrogen on morphine antinociception using a bone cancer pain model and compared its potency with that of oxycodone. Female mice were ovariectomized (OVX) for preparation of a femur bone cancer pain (FBC) model. β-estradiol was subcutaneously (s.c.) administered and antinociceptive effects of opioids was assessed using the von Frey monofilament test. Although morphine (5–20 mg/kg, s.c.) did have significant antinociceptive effects in the FBC-OVX group, its effects in the FBC-OVX+β-estradiol (OVX+E) group was limited. Oxycodone (1–5 mg/kg, s.c.) exhibited significant effects in both groups. Expression changes in opioid-related genes (μ-, κ-, δ-opioid receptors, prodynorphin, proenkephalin, proopiomelanocortin) in the spinal and supraspinal sites were examined among the sham-OVX, sham-OVX+E, FBC-OVX, and FBC-OVX+E groups by in situ hybridization. These studies detected a significant increase in prodynorphin in the spinal dorsal horn of the FBC-OVX+E group. Spinal injection of a dynorphin-A antibody to FBC-OVX+E mice restored antinociception of morphine. In conclusion, we detected a differential effect of estrogen on morphine- and oxycodone-induced antinociception in a female FBC model. The effect of morphine was limited with estrogen exposure, which may be due to estrogen- and pain-mediated spinal expression of dynorphin-A.