The effects of withdrawal from repeated nifedipine treatment on morphine-induced analgesia, hyperthermia and catalepsy as well as on cerebral [3H]nitrendipine binding and on morphine-induced changes in striatal and limbic dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine metabolism were studied in rats. Repeated administration of nifedipine (5 mg/kg i.p., twice daily for 14 days) decreased [3H]nitrendipine binding in several brain areas of the rats at 24 h after the last dose but did not change the nociceptive response or rectal temperature of the animals. Further, the antinociceptive potency of acute morphine (2.5 mg/kg s.c.) was significantly reduced in rats withdrawn for 24 h from repeated nifedipine treatment. However, withdrawal from repeated nifedipine treatment failed to affect either the hyperthermia induced by this dose of morphine or the catalepsy and the elevation of dopamine or 5-hydroxytryptamine metabolites induced by 15 mg/kg of morphine. Taken together, these data show that withdrawal from repeated treatment with dihydropyridine calcium channel antagonists selectively reduces the effects of opioids on the nociceptive response.
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