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Query: UMLS:C0020672 (hypothermia)
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The endogenous opioid met-enkephalin intraventricularly adminstered to the rat at the dose of 100 microgram raised rectal temperature, whereas 400 microgram of the pentapeptide caused a diphasic effect, i.e., hypothermia followed by hyperthermia. Met-enkephalin was ineffective when administered i.p. The effects on temperature were substantially similar to those elicited, for both routes of administration, by morphine, which may either raise or lower rat temperature depending on the dose. More naloxone was required to antagonize thermic effects of met-enkephalin than morphine. Finally, there was a lack of effects on temperature for met-enkephalin centrally administered to morphine-tolerant animals, thus providing further evidence, in vivo, of cross tolerance between opiates and naturally occurring ligands of opiate receptors.
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PMID:Effects of Met-enkephalin on body temperature of normal and morphine-tolerant rats. 9 98

Intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration of kyotorphin (L-Tyr-L-Arg) and cyclo (N-methyl-L-Tyr-L-Arg), its analog, produced significant dose-dependent hypothermic responses in mice at an ambient temperature of 24 degrees C. The hypothermic action of kyotorphin was much greater than that of Met-enkephalin (Met-ENK) but less than that of cyclo NMTA. This action was slightly but not significantly reversed by intraperitoneally administered naloxone (8 mg/kg), an opioid receptor antagonist. Met-ENK utilized as a control peptide in this study also produced a dose-dependent hypothermia which was slightly antagonized by naloxone (8 mg/kg, IP). Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) injected ICV produced hyperthermia dose-dependently. The hypothermia induced by kyotorphin, its cyclic analog and Met-ENK was prevented by a small dose of TRH (0.18 microgram = 0.5 nmol/animal) which by itself had little effect on body temperature. A TRH neuronal system in the brain may explain the mechanism of kyotorphin-induced hypothermia. However, there was little evidence of involvement of opioid receptors. The present study demonstrates a potent action of kyotorphin and its analog on thermoregulation.
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PMID:Actions of intracerebroventricular administration of kyotorphin and an analog on thermoregulation in the mouse. 642 2