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  • Title: Effect of chronic maternal diazepam treatment on the development of stress-induced antinociception in young rats.
    Author: Muhammad BY, Kitchen I.
    Journal: Pharmacol Biochem Behav; 1994 Apr; 47(4):927-33. PubMed ID: 8029264.
    Abstract:
    The use and abuse of benzodiazepines is widespread and we have begun to address whether maternal exposure to these drugs influences the development of opioid systems. We have studied the effect of maternal diazepam treatment on stress-induced antinociception in the neonatal offspring. Diazepam (1 or 10 mg/kg) was administered twice daily to mothers from conception. Pre- and postweanling rat pups were assessed for opioid-mediated stress-induced antinociception by 3-min swimming and measuring nociception using the tail immersion test. In preweanling rats there was stress-induced antinociception in both vehicle- and diazepam-treated animals but in diazepam-treated groups (1 and 10 mg/kg) this was insensitive to reversal by the opioid antagonist naloxone, suggesting that nonopioid systems are operating this response. In postweanling rats a similar insensitivity to naloxone was observed in 1 mg/kg diazepam-treated groups; with 10 mg/kg diazepam there was no significant antinociception. The results suggest that maternal diazepam treatment interferes with the development of stress-mediated responses and that part of this toxicity is due to actions on opioid systems in the CNS.
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