Narcotics

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A dopamine D1 receptor-dependent β-arrestin signaling complex potentially regulates morphine-induced psychomotor activation but not reward in mice. 
  • Abuse liability of medications used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 
  • Acute changes in cranial blood flow after cocaine hydrochloride. 
  • Anaphylactic and anaphylactoid reactions. A review. 
  • Ancient and recent positive selection transformed opioid cis-regulation in humans. 
  • Antagonist treatment of opioid withdrawal translational low dose approach. 
  • Application of continuous incisional infusion of local anesthetic after major pediatric urological surgery. 
  • Association Between Preoperative Narcotic Use with Perioperative Complication Rates, Patient Reported Pain Scores, and Ambulatory Status After Complex Spinal Fusion (≥5 Levels) for Adult Deformity Correction. 
  • Behavioral and molecular effects of dopamine D1 receptor stimulation during naloxone-precipitated morphine withdrawal. 
  • Behavioral assessment of narcotic detoxification fear. 
  • Cholinergic synaptic signaling mechanisms underlying behavioral teratogenicity: effects of nicotine, chlorpyrifos, and heroin converge on protein kinase C translocation in the intermedial part of the hyperstriatum ventrale and on imprinting behavior in an avian model. 
  • Chronic epidural bupivacaine-opioid infusion in intractable cancer pain. 
  • Chronic very low dose naltrexone administration attenuates opioid withdrawal expression. 
  • Cocaine sensitization in periadolescent and adult rats. 
  • Commentaries on Viewpoint: Why do some patients stop breathing after taking narcotics? Ventilatory chemosensitivity as a predictor of opioid-induced respiratory depression. 
  • Differences in Methadone Metabolism by CYP2B6 Variants. 
  • Differences in extracellular dopamine concentrations in the nucleus accumbens during response-dependent and response-independent cocaine administration in the rat. 
  • Early outcomes following low dose naltrexone enhancement of opioid detoxification. 
  • Effect of administration of high dose intrathecal clonidine or morphine prior to sciatic nerve section on c-Fos expression in rat lumbar spinal cord. 
  • Effects of sex and gonadectomy on cocaine metabolism in the rat. 
  • Effects of specific mu and kappa opiate tolerance and abstinence on hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis secretion in the rat. 
  • Elevated mu-opioid receptor expression in the nucleus of the solitary tract accompanies attenuated withdrawal signs after chronic low dose naltrexone in opiate-dependent rats. 
  • Emergency nurses' knowledge of pain management principles. 
  • Enantiomeric metabolic interactions and stereoselective human methadone metabolism. 
  • G protein-coupled receptor kinase/beta-arrestin systems and drugs of abuse: psychostimulant and opiate studies in knockout mice. 
  • Grading the severity of chronic pain. 
  • HIV risk behavior in opioid dependent adults seeking detoxification treatment: an exploratory comparison of heroin and oxycodone users. 
  • How do prescription opioid users differ from users of heroin or other drugs in psychopathology: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. 
  • Imagery reduces children's post-operative pain 
  • Impact of staged InterStim implantation on the postoperative activities of daily living and pain. 
  • Infrequent illicit methadone use among stimulant-using patients in methadone maintenance treatment programs: a national drug abuse treatment clinical trials network study. 
  • Intracranial pressure response after pharmacologic treatment of intracranial hypertension. 
  • Last Word on Viewpoint: Why do some patients stop breathing after taking narcotics? Ventilatory chemosensitivity as a predictor of opioid-induced respiratory depression. 
  • Mechanism of ritonavir changes in methadone pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics: I. Evidence against CYP3A mediation of methadone clearance. 
  • Mechanism of ritonavir changes in methadone pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics: II. Ritonavir effects on CYP3A and P-glycoprotein activities. 
  • Metabolism of levo-alpha-Acetylmethadol (LAAM) by human liver cytochrome P450: involvement of CYP3A4 characterized by atypical kinetics with two binding sites. 
  • Metabolism of methadone and levo-alpha-acetylmethadol (LAAM) by human intestinal cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4): potential contribution of intestinal metabolism to presystemic clearance and bioactivation. 
  • Modulation of high alcohol drinking in the inbred Fawn-Hooded (FH/Wjd) rat strain: implications for treatment. 
  • Narcotic use and misuse in Crohn's disease. 
  • Neural grafting reverses prenatal drug-induced alterations in hippocampal PKC and related behavioral deficits. 
  • Neurobehavioral damage to cholinergic systems caused by prenatal exposure to heroin or phenobarbital: cellular mechanisms and the reversal of deficits by neural grafts. 
  • Neuropathic pain activates the endogenous kappa opioid system in mouse spinal cord and induces opioid receptor tolerance. 
  • Ontogeny of the behavioral response to dopamine agonists after chronic cocaine. 
  • Opiate withdrawal in the neonatal rat: relationship to duration of treatment and naloxone dose. 
  • Opiates transdeactivate chemokine receptors: delta and mu opiate receptor-mediated heterologous desensitization. 
  • Opiates, intracranial pressure, and autoregulation. 
  • Opioid-mediated facilitation of long-term potentiation at the lateral perforant path-dentate granule cell synapse. 
  • Perinatal effects of drugs of abuse. 
  • Postoperative Pain Scores and Narcotic Use in Robotic-assisted Versus Laparoscopic Hysterectomy for Endometrial Cancer Staging. 
  • Postoperative nausea and vomiting. A retrospective analysis in patients undergoing elective craniotomy. 
  • Potentiated opioid analgesia in norepinephrine transporter knock-out mice. 
  • Practical aspects of MAO inhibitor therapy. 
  • Preoperative lumbar epidural morphine improves postoperative analgesia and ventilatory function after transsternal thymectomy in patients with myasthenia gravis. 
  • Pro: midazolam is the sedative of choice to supplement narcotic anesthesia. 
  • Reduced Influence of Affective Disorders on 6-Week and 3-Month Narcotic Refills After Primary Complex Spinal Fusions for Adult Deformity Correction: A Single-Institutional Study. 
  • Removal of microglial-specific MyD88 signaling alters dentate gyrus doublecortin and enhances opioid addiction-like behaviors. 
  • Role for G protein-coupled receptor kinase in agonist-specific regulation of mu-opioid receptor responsiveness. 
  • Role of noradrenergic hyperactivity in neonatal opiate abstinence. 
  • Serendipitous rapid detoxification from opiates: the importance of time-dependent processes. 
  • Survey of methadone-drug interactions among patients of methadone maintenance treatment program in Taiwan. 
  • Targeting microglial purinergic signaling to improve morphine analgesia. 
  • The effect of quinidine, used as a probe for the involvement of P-glycoprotein, on the intestinal absorption and pharmacodynamics of methadone. 
  • The kindling model of epilepsy: a critical review. 
  • Treatment considerations for elderly and frail patients with neuropathic pain. 
  • US primary care physicians' opinions about conscientious refusal: a national vignette experiment. 
  • Use of very low-dose naltrexone during opiate detoxification. 
  • Using a latent variable approach to inform gender and racial/ethnic differences in cocaine dependence: a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network study. 
  • Voltage-dependent effects of opioid peptides on hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons in vitro. 
  • Why does social exclusion hurt? The relationship between social and physical pain. 
  • [Nphe1]nociceptin(1-13)-NH2 antagonizes nociceptin-induced hypotension, bradycardia, and hindquarters vasodilation in the anesthetized rat. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology
  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine