Abstract：
:Pain remains a major clinical challenge because there are no effective analgesics for some pain conditions and the mainstay analgesics for severe pain, opioids, have serious unwanted effects. There is a dire need for novel analgesics in the clinic. Imidazoline receptors are a family of three receptors (I(1), I(2) and I(3)) that all can recognize compounds with an imidazoline structure. Accumulating evidence suggests that I(2) receptors are involved in pain modulation. Ligands acting at I(2) receptors are effective for tonic inflammatory and neuropathic pain but are much less effective for acute phasic pain. When studied in combination, I(2) receptor ligands enhance the analgesic effects of opioids in both acute phasic and chronic tonic pain. During chronic use, patients can develop tolerance to and dependence on opioids. Imidazoline I(2) receptor ligands can attenuate the development of tolerance to opioid analgesia and inhibit drug withdrawal or antagonist precipitation induced abstinence syndrome in animals. Taken together, drugs acting on I(2) receptors may be useful as a monotherapy or combined with opioids as an adjuvant for treating pain. Future studies should focus on understanding the relative efficacy of I(2) receptor ligands and developing new compounds to fill the gap in intrinsic efficacy continuum of I(2) receptors.
journal_name
Eur J Pharmacoljournal_title
European journal of pharmacologyauthors
Li JX,Zhang Ydoi
10.1016/j.ejphar.2011.02.038subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-05-11 00:00:00pages
49-56issue
2-3eissn
0014-2999issn
1879-0712pii
S0014-2999(11)00223-8journal_volume
658pub_type
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