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Discriminative stimulus effects of mu and kappa opioids in the pigeon: analysis of the effects of full and partial mu and kappa agonists.

Pigeons were trained to discriminate a dose of either 0.01 mg/kg of bremazocine or 0.05 mg/kg of fentanyl from water using a two-key drug discrimination procedure. During tests of substitution, the selective kappa-opioid agonists bremazocine, U50, 488 and tifluadom substituted for the bremazocine stimulus, whereas the less selective kappa-opioid agonists ethylketocyclazocine, levallorphan, proxorphan and nalorphine substituted for the fentanyl stimulus. The full mu-opioid agonists fentanyl, morphine, I-methadone and levorphanol, as well as the partial agonists nalbuphine, butorphanol and buprenorphine, substituted for the fentanyl stimulus. Compounds with partial-opioid agonist effects, namely nalbuphine, butorphanol, buprenorphine, proxorphan, levallorphan and nalorphine, produced 50% fentanyl-appropriate responding at doses 25 to 369.2 times smaller than the doses required to decrease response rates to 50% of control values. In contrast, the full mu-opioid agonists fentanyl, morphine, I-methadone and levorphanol produced 50% fentanyl-appropriate responding at doses only 1.3 to 10.9 times smaller than those required to decrease response rates by 50%. During tests of antagonism, both naloxone and Mr2266 produced a dose-dependent attenuation of the stimulus effects of bremazocine and fentanyl, whereas beta-funaltrexamine antagonized the stimulus effects of fentanyl but not bremazocine. Although bremazocine has been reported to have mu-opioid antagonist effects, it failed to antagonize the stimulus effects of the training dose of fentanyl. The present investigation establishes further that pigeons can discriminate selective kappa-opioid agonists from mu-opioid agonists and that in pigeons the classification of numerous opioid compounds on the basis of their kappa-like or mu-like stimulus effects differ from those in rat and monkey. In addition, under the drug discrimination procedure the actions of compounds classified as partial-opioid agonists can be differentiated from those of full mu-opioid agonists on the basis of the ratio of the dose required to engender fentanyl-like stimulus effects to the dose required to reduce response rates.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)[1]

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