Navideh Sahebi Vaighan,Soha Parhiz, Masoume Sabetkasaei, Taraneh Moinizanjani and Malek Zarei
Shahid Baheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Neurosci Neuropharm
Aims: Several studies have indicated the important role of serotonergic system
in tolerance to analgesic effects of morphine. The aim of the present study, is to
investigate the effect of paroxetine, a specific serotonin reuptake inhibitor, on
morphine tolerance in rat.
Methods: Male Wistar rats (weight 250-300g, n=10) were used in two studies: In the
first study, the preventive effect of paroxetine was investigated on naïve rats during
induction of tolerance to morphine. In the Second study, the effect of paroxetine was
determined on previously established tolerance to morphine in animals.
In order to induce tolerance, one group of rats received daily intraperitoneal injection
of morphine (7mg/kg). After 5days of injection tolerance to morphine was observed.
Thereafter, the animals received intraperitoneal injection of 7mg/kg paroxetine
before morphine administration for 6 next days. In the other group, in order to
investigate the preventive effect of paroxetine, animals received 7mg/kg paroxetine
30 min before morphine injection until the tolerance was observed. In each group, the
tail-flick test was done before drug administration (time 0) and after drug injection.
Result: Results showed that paroxetine can significantly attenuate tolerance to
morphine in tolerated rats (P<0.001). However, in preventive study, with paroxetine
pretreatment, tolerance was observed on the 5th day and the analgesic effect of
morphine was not significantly increased by pretreatment of paroxetine compared
to control group.
Conclusions: Our data indicate that, paroxetine showed an effective treatment effect
in established tolerance, but it cannot prevent tolerance to morphine
E-mail: navideh.sahebi@gmail.com
