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J Appl Physiol 66: 2280-2286, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 66, Issue 5 2280-2286, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Proopiomelanocortin opioids in brain, CSF, and plasma of piglets during hypoxia

I. R. Moss and J. G. Inman
Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-9063.

beta-Endorphin-like immunoreactivity (BELI), containing the biologically active beta-endorphin, its precursor beta-lipotropin (BLP), and deactivated product N-acetyl-beta-endorphin (ABE), were measured by radioimmunoassay in plasma, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and in a dorsal medullary slice containing the respiratory-related nucleus tractus solitarius (dmscNTS) of young and older piglets in normoxia and hypoxia. Significant increase with hypoxia occurred in the levels of BLP in the plasma and CSF and of BELI and ABE in the plasma of the young group. In the older group, such increases occurred in ABE levels of the dmscNTS, in BLP and ABE levels of the CSF, and in plasma BELI. Estimated levels of pure beta-endorphin were higher in the CSF of young piglets during both control and hypoxia. With hypoxia, these estimated levels increased significantly in the plasma of the young age group but showed only a borderline increase in the old group. It is possible that higher opioid levels in the CSF of young as compared with older neonates, enhanced by a greater opioid increase in their plasma during hypoxia, may help explain the suppressed respiratory response to hypoxia of the newborn.


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