Title : Opioids and the Blood-Brain Barrier: A Dynamic Interaction with Consequences on Drug Disposition in Brain.

Pub. Date : 2017 Nov 14

PMID : 28474563






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1 Recent studies uncover two mechanisms by which morphine may up-regulate P-gp and BCRP at the BBB: 1) via a glutamate, NMDA-receptor and COX-2 signaling cascade, and 2) via TLR4 activation, subsequent development of neuroinflammation, and activation of NF-kB, presumably via glial cells. Morphine mitochondrially encoded cytochrome c oxidase II Homo sapiens