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Anesthesiology
June 2007
PET Unit and Section of Surgical Pathophysiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Neurology Department, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Br J Anaesth
November 2000
University Department of Anaesthesia, Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK.
Local anaesthetics potentiate epidural or intrathecal opioid analgesia via a poorly defined mechanism. In this study, we have examined the interaction of local anaesthetics (lidocaine, bupivacaine and its optical isomers, tetracaine, procaine and prilocaine) with recombinant mu-, kappa-, and delta-opioid receptors expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO-mu, kappa, and delta, respectively). Lidocaine produced a concentration-dependent displacement of radiolabelled opioid antagonist [3H]diprenorphine ([3H]DPN) binding with the following rank order of inhibitor constant (Ki): kappa (210 microM) > mu (552 microM) > delta (1810 microM).
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