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Ethanol Reversal Of Oxycodone Tolerances, Joanna C. Jacob
Ethanol Reversal Of Oxycodone Tolerances, Joanna C. Jacob
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Oxycodone is a semi-synthetic opioid originally developed as a safer alternative to morphine. It is commonly prescribed for its pain-relieving effects, but has recently been implicated as a major underlying cause of the current opioid epidemic due to its clinical limitations that include tolerance, dependence and a high abuse liability. Simultaneous consumption of opioids and ethanol has been shown to increase the risk of overdose and death from opioids in opioid-tolerant individuals. We hypothesized that ethanol reversed opioid tolerance and previous studies showed that ethanol reversed morphine tolerance. This dissertation investigated whether ethanol reversed tolerance to other opioids in mice, …
The Effects Of The Hiv-1 Tat Protein And Morphine On The Structure And Function Of The Hippocampal Ca1 Subfield, William D. Marks
The Effects Of The Hiv-1 Tat Protein And Morphine On The Structure And Function Of The Hippocampal Ca1 Subfield, William D. Marks
Theses and Dissertations
HIV is capable of causing a set of neurological diseases collectively termed the HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND). Worsening pathology is observed in HIV+ individuals who use opioid drugs. Memory problems are often observed in HAND, implicating HIV pathology in the hippocampus, and are also known to be exacerbated by morphine use. HIV-1 Tat was demonstrated to reduce spatial memory performance in multiple tasks, and individual subsets of CA1 interneurons were found to be selectively vulnerable to the effects of Tat, notably nNOS+/NPY- interneurons of the pyramidal layer and stratum radiatum, PV+ neurons of the pyramidal layer, and SST+ neurons …