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SUBMITTER: Jimenez-Vargas NN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7334524 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jimenez-Vargas Nestor N NN Gong Jing J Wisdom Matthew J MJ Jensen Dane D DD Latorre Rocco R Hegron Alan A Teng Shavonne S DiCello Jesse J JJ Rajasekhar Pradeep P Veldhuis Nicholas A NA Carbone Simona E SE Yu Yang Y Lopez-Lopez Cintya C Jaramillo-Polanco Josue J Canals Meritxell M Reed David E DE Lomax Alan E AE Schmidt Brian L BL Leong Kam W KW Vanner Stephen J SJ Halls Michelle L ML Bunnett Nigel W NW Poole Daniel P DP
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200616 26
Whether G protein-coupled receptors signal from endosomes to control important pathophysiological processes and are therapeutic targets is uncertain. We report that opioids from the inflamed colon activate δ-opioid receptors (DOPr) in endosomes of nociceptors. Biopsy samples of inflamed colonic mucosa from patients and mice with colitis released opioids that activated DOPr on nociceptors to cause a sustained decrease in excitability. DOPr agonists inhibited mechanically sensitive colonic nocicep ...[more]