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  • Title: [Effect of beta-endorphin, enkephalins and their synthetic analogs on the neuronal electrical activity of the respiratory center in the medulla oblongata].
    Author: Iasnetsov VV, Pravdivtsev VA, Motin VG.
    Journal: Biull Eksp Biol Med; 1984 Dec; 98(12):687-90. PubMed ID: 6095954.
    Abstract:
    It has been shown in experiments on conscious rabbits that beta-endorphine, enkephalins and their synthetic analogs as well as morphine suppress respiration depending on the dose. Naloxone completely reverses this effect of the drugs. While studying the mechanism of the suppressing action of morphine-like substances on respiration in experiments on anesthesized rabbits and cats, opioid peptides and morphine were applied microiontophoretically to the neurons of the bulbar respiratory center. These cells were found to be highly sensitive to the drugs (about 60% of both respiratory and reticular neurons were suppressed by microiontophoretic application of the drugs). Naloxone prevented the effects of opioids and morphine. It is assumed that the suppressing effect of endogenous opioid peptides and their synthetic analogs on respiration is determined to a considerable degree by direct influence of morphine-like substances on the neurons of the bulbar respiratory center.
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