The activation of endogenous opioid mechanisms and their subsequent effects on rodent behavior and physiology has usually been characterized following artificial stress. In this study the more naturalistic stress arising from social conflict between male mice was used to investigate the involvement of opioid systems in post-conflict analgesic and ingestive behaviors. Both the aggressive encounters and the subsequent defeat experience resulted in marked analgesia and the induction of ingestive behaviors. Feeding and drinking responses were analogous to those observed after administrations of either the endogenous opioid peptide, beta-endorphin, or the exogenous opioid agonist morphine. The ingestive behaviors following defeat or central opiate administration were blocked by the opiate antagonist naloxone. The present results support the hypothesis of a direct activation of the endogenous opiate system following social conflict.
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