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Possible involvement of endogenous opiates in the tolerance to the anorectic effect of fenfluramine.

A Groppetti, M Parenti, L Dellavedova and F Tirone
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics February 1984, 228 (2) 446-453;
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Repeated administration of fenfluramine leads to a rapid and progressive loss of its effectiveness in reducing food intake. The animals tolerant to the anorectic effect of fenfluramine had markedly low basal hypothalamic serotonin (5-HT) levels. In this brain area the levels of [Met5]enkephalin-like immunoreactive material were, on the contrary, significantly higher in fenfluramine-tolerant animals than in controls. In tolerant animals the drug failed to further decrease 5-HT concentrations unless it was given at doses also reducing food intake. On the other hand, in acute experiments, morphine pretreatment potentiated and naloxone antagonized fenfluramine-induced depletion of striatal and hypothalamic 5-HT stores. In addition, when given to fenfluramine-tolerant rats, morphine restored the efficacy of the anorectic agent. After morphine pretreatment, fenfluramine depleted 5-HT and reduced food intake in tolerant animals. These findings, while further substantiating the importance of 5-HT in mediating fenfluramine anorexia, also suggest that endogenous opiates may play an important role in the processes through which tolerance to this drug develops. Fenfluramine reduces food intake by releasing 5-HT and tolerance to its anorectic effect would be a consequence of an inability to further release 5-HT. However, because release of 5-HT by fenfluramine seems to be modulated by opiates, repeated administration of fenfluramine might alter such modulatory mechanisms and tolerance to the effects of the drug would develop.

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Possible involvement of endogenous opiates in the tolerance to the anorectic effect of fenfluramine.

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Possible involvement of endogenous opiates in the tolerance to the anorectic effect of fenfluramine.

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