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The effects of D-phenylalanine and its derivatives on enkephalin degradation in vitro: relation to analgesia and attenuation of the morphine withdrawal syndrome.

The effect of D-Phenylalanine (D-Phe), putative carboxypeptidase A inhibitor and its four derivatives (T1-T4) on analgesia, development of tolerance and physical dependence to morphine, and on degradation of both exogenous and endogenous enkephalins was investigated. Systemic administration of either D-Phe or its derivatives produced naloxone-reversible analgesia in the hot-plate test in mice. Naloxone-precipitated morphine withdrawal syndrome was attenuated in mice after systemic subacute administration (7 days, 1.2 mmol/kg, sc) of D-phe derivatives, the development of tolerance to morphine being unchanged. In the presence of either D-Phe or its derivatives in incubation mixture (up to 10(-3) mol/l) the hydrolysis of exogenous 3H-Met5-and 3H-Leu5-enkephalin in striatal homogenates was slightly inhibited. Moreover, the addition of D-Phe or its derivatives seemed to increase the per cent of recovered endogenous Met5-enkephalin released from veratridine-depolarized striatal particles. In contrast, bestatin, an amino-peptidase inhibitor, and a mixture of dipeptides ( Tyr- Tyr, Leu-Leu, Leu-Gly) markedly inhibited degradation of both endogenous and exogenous enkephalins in vitro. The results obtained in this study suggest that that pharmacological activity of D-Phe is not directly related to the endogenous opiate system.[1]

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  1. The effects of D-phenylalanine and its derivatives on enkephalin degradation in vitro: relation to analgesia and attenuation of the morphine withdrawal syndrome. Janicki, P.K., Gumułka, S.W., Szreniawski, Z., Paulo, E.A., Arnold, Z. Polish journal of pharmacology and pharmacy. (1986) [Pubmed]
 
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