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  • Title: A study of the interaction between clonidine and morphine on analgesia and blood pressure during continuous intrathecal infusion in the rat.
    Author: Loomis CW, Milne B, Cervenko FW.
    Journal: Neuropharmacology; 1988 Feb; 27(2):191-9. PubMed ID: 3352873.
    Abstract:
    In the rat, the continuous intrathecal (i.t.) infusion of clonidine (0.4 microgram/hr) significantly increased the tail-flick latency (TF) and the threshold for paw pressure (PP) withdrawal for 5 days and decreased the systolic blood pressure (up to 24 mm Hg) for 7 days. The antinociceptive effect of continuous intrathecal infusion of clonidine (0.4 microgram/hr) in the tail flick and paw pressure tests was not attenuated in rats that were tolerant to morphine. The acute intrathecal administration of clonidine (2.7 micrograms) and morphine (1.0 microgram) resulted in a synergistic interaction in the tail-flick and paw pressure tests. A synergistic interaction was also observed during the continuous intrathecal infusion of morphine (1.25 micrograms/hr) and clonidine (0.2 microgram/hr) in the tail-flick and paw pressure tests. Individually, these doses of morphine and clonidine had no antinociceptive effect. However, intrathecal infusion together yielded peak tail-flick and paw pressure responses comparable to that of 0.4 microgram/hr clonidine alone, without affecting systolic blood pressure. No delay in the onset of tolerance to the analgesic effect was observed with the combination as compared with clonidine (0.4 microgram/hr) alone. The data indicate that clonidine-induced spinal analgesia is independent of endogenous opioid systems linked to mu-receptors in the spinal cord, and that optimization of spinal analgesia (e.g. synergism) can be achieved during continuous intrathecal infusion without affecting cardiovascular activity.
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