Peripheral opioidergic regulation of the tracheobronchial mucociliary transport system

• Published in: Journal of applied physiology (1985) Vol. 94; no. 6; pp. 2375 - 2383
• Main Authors: Wang, Lian, Tiniakov, Ruslan L, Yeates, Donovan B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bethesda, MD Am Physiological Soc 01.06.2003; American Physiological Society
• Subjects: Aerosols; Air breathing; Animals; beta-Endorphin - administration & dosage; beta-Endorphin - pharmacology; Biological and medical sciences; Bronchi - physiology; Dogs; Drug Synergism; Dynorphins - pharmacology; Enkephalin, Leucine-2-Alanine - pharmacology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hypotheses; In Vitro Techniques; Injections, Intramuscular; Ions; Male; Mucociliary Clearance - drug effects; Mucous membrane; Naloxone - administration & dosage; Narcotic Antagonists - administration & dosage; Peptide Fragments - pharmacology; Respiratory system; Respiratory system: anatomy, metabolism, gas exchange, ventilatory mechanics, respiratory hemodynamics; Sheep; Trachea - metabolism; Trachea - physiology; Vertebrates: respiratory system; Water; Water - metabolism; transepithelial water transport; Fissipedia; Carnivora; Nervous control; Opioid receptor; Tracheobronchial; inhibitory neural regulation; β-Endorphin; Respiratory system; Mucociliary transport; Respiratory tract; Vertebrata; Mammalia; naloxone; Antagonist; Dog; Transepithelial transport
• ISSN: 8750-7587; 1522-1601
• DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00741.2002

Departments of 1  Medicine and 2  Bioengineering University of Illinois at Chicago, and 3  Veterans Affairs Health Care System, West Side, Chicago, Illinois 60612 We hypothesized that, in the airway mucosa, opioids are inhibitory neural modulators that cause an increase in net water absorption in the airway mucosa (as in the gut). Changes in bidirectional water fluxes across ovine tracheal mucosa in response to basolateral application of the opioid peptides -endorphin, dynorphin A-(1-8), and [ D -Ala 2 , D -Leu 5 ]-enkephalin (DADLE) were measured. -Endorphin and dynorphin A-(1-8) decreased luminal-to-basolateral water fluxes, and dynorphin A-(1-8) and DADLE increased basolateral-to-luminal water flux. These responses were electroneutral. In seven beagle dogs, administration of aerosolized -endorphin (1 mg) to the tracheobronchial airways decreased the clearance of radiotagged particles from the bronchi in 1 h from 34.7 to 22.0% ( P  < 0.001). Naloxone abrogated the -endorphin-induced changes in vitro and in vivo. Contrary to our hypothesis, the opioid-induced changes in water fluxes would all lead to a predictable increase in airway surface fluid. The -endorphin-induced increases in airway fluid together with reduced bronchial mucociliary clearance may produce procongestive responses when opioids are administered as antitussives. inhibitory neural regulation; transepithelial water transport; -endorphin; naloxone