Prostaglandin E2 injected in the rat paw causes hyperalgesia which is antagonized by local injections of opiate and opiate antagonists. In the present investigation in rats it is shown that naloxone has an analgesic effect at doses as low as 2 micrograms/site, injected into the rat hind paw. At a dose that has no analgesic effect (1 microgram/site) naloxone antagonized the analgesia produced by either local or systemic administration of morphine. Local administration of levorphanol (50 micrograms/site) caused a 50% reduction in the intensity of the hyperalgesia induced by prostaglandin E2. A dose four times greater of its isomer, dextrorphan, had little analgesic effect. The present results support the suggestion that this peripheral analgesia is the result of an action of opiates in receptors located at the nociceptors.
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