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SUBMITTER: Mercer SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1850229 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mercer Susan L SL Hassan Hazem E HE Cunningham Christopher W CW Eddington Natalie D ND Coop Andrew A
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20061221 5
P-Glycoprotein (P-gp) is an efflux transporter which is up-regulated at the blood-brain barrier in both morphine- and oxycodone-tolerant rats. Numerous studies have shown that many clinically employed opioid analgesics are substrates for P-gp, suggesting that up-regulation of P-gp may contribute to the development of central tolerance to opioids. The studies herein focus on the development of SAR for P-gp substrate activity in the meperidine series of compounds, and show that a meperidine analog ...[more]