Does opioid analgesia show a gender preference for females?

Pain Forum

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 34-44

  Miaskowski, C ^a   Levine, J D ^a   Page, G G ^a   Mogil, J S ^a   Kest, B ^a   Maixner, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Opioid analgesia; Pain; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; OPIATE;

ADULT; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032929415     PISSN: 10589139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1082-3174(99)70044-9     Document Type: Review

References (57)

1. A Baamonde A Hidalgo F Andres-Trelles Sex-related differences in the effects of morphine and stress on visceral pain Neuropharmacology 28 1989 967 970
2. NH Badner WE Komar RA Craen Patient attitudes regarding PCA and associated costs Can J Anaesth 44 1997 255 258
3. M Bahar M Rosen MD Vickers Self-administered nalbuphine, morphine and pethidine Anaesthesia 40 1985 529 532
4. RE Bartok RM Craft Sex differences in opioid antinociception J Pharmacol Exp Ther 282 1997 769 778
5. R Bennett R Batenhorst DA Graves TS Foster WO Griffen BD Wright Variation in postoperative analgesic requirements in the morbidly obese following gastric bypass surgery Pharmacotherapy 2 1982 50 53
6. BA Berkowitz JH Asling SM Shnider EL Way Relationship of pentazocine plasma levels to pharmacologic activity in man Clin Pharmacol Ther 10 1969 320 328
7. MR Bond The relationship of pain to the Eysenck Personality Inventory, Cornell Medical Index, and Whitely Index of hypochondriasis Br J Psychiatry 119 1971 671 678
8. P Boyle GD Parbrook The interrelation of personality and postoperative factors Br J Anaesth 49 1977 259 264
9. RES Bullingham HJ McQuay D Dwyer MC Allen RA Moore Sublingual buprenorphine used postoperatively: clinical observations and preliminary pharmacokinetic analysis Br J Clin Pharmacol 12 1981 117 122
10. JW Burns NBA Hodsman TTC McLintock GWA Gillies GNC Kenny CS McArdle The influence of patient characteristics on the requirements for postoperative analgesia: a reassessment using patient-controlled analgesia Anaesthesia 44 1989 2 6
11. J Candido K Lufty B Billing Effect of adrenal and sex hormones on opioid analgesia and opioid receptor regulation Pharmacol Biochem Behav 42 1992 685 692
12. T Cicero B Nock E Meyer Gender-related differences in the antinociceptive properties of morphine J Pharmacol Exp Ther 279 1996 767 773
13. T Cicero B Nock E Meyer Sex-related differences in morphine's antinociceptive activity: relationship to serum and brain morphine concentrations J Pharmacol Exp Ther 282 1997 939 944
14. B Dahlström A Tamsen L Paalzow P Hartvig Patientcontrolled analgesic therapy. Part IV: pharmacokinetics and analgesic plasma concentrations of morphine Clin Pharmacokinet 7 1982 266 279
15. DG Dalrymple GD Parbrook Personality assessment and postoperative analgesia. A study in male patients undergoing elective gastric surgery Br J Anaesth 48 1976 593 597
16. DG Dalrymple GD Parbrook DF Steel The effect of personality in postoperative pain and vital capacity impairment Br JAnaesth 44 1972 902
17. DG Dalrymple GD Parbrook DF Steel Factors predisposing to postoperative pain and pulmonary complications: a study of female patients undergoing elective cholecystectomy Br J Anaesth 45 1973 589 598
18. M De Kock JL Scholtes Postoperative PCA in abdominal surgery: analysis of 200 consecutive patients Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica 42 1991 85 91
19. KJ Egan LB Ready Patient satisfaction with intravenous PCA or epidural morphine Can J Anaesth 41 1994 6 11
20. M Ehrnebo LO Boreus U Lonroth Bioavailability and first-pass metabolism of oral pentazocine in man Clin Pharmacol Ther 22 1977 888 892
21. RB Fillingim W Maixner Gender differences in the responses to noxious stimuli Pain Forum 4 1995 209 221
22. RW Gear NC Gordon PH Heller S Paul C Miaskowski JD Levine Gender difference in analgesic response to the kappa-opioid pentazocine Neurosci Lett 205 1996 207 209
23. RW Gear C Miaskowski NC Gordon SM Paul PH Heller JD Levine Kappa-opioids produce significantly greater analgesia in women than in men Nature Med 2 1996 1248 1250
24. Gear RW, Miaskowski C, Gordon NC, Paul SM, Heller PH, Levine JD: The kappa-opioid nalbuphine produces gender and dose dependent analgesia and antianalgesia in patients with postoperative pain, submitted
25. NC Gordon RW Gear PH Heller S Paul C Miaskowski JD Levine Enhancement of morphine analgesia by the GABA-B agonist baclofen Neuroscience 69 1995 345 349
26. GK Gourlay SR Kowalski JL Plummer MJ Cousins PJ Armstrong Fentanyl blood concentration—analgesic response relationship in the treatment of postoperative pain Anesth Analg 67 1988 329 337
27. A Islam M Cooper R Bodnar Interactions among aging, gender, and gonadectomy effects upon morphine antinociception in rats Physiol Behav 54 1993 45 53
28. P Jaillon ME Gardin B Lecocq Pharmacokinetics of nalbuphine in infants, young health volunteers, and elderly patients Clin Pharmacol Ther 46 1989 226 233
29. M Kavaliers D Innes Sex and day-night differences in opiate-induced responses of insular wild deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus triangularis Pharmacol Biochem Behav 27 1987 477 482
30. KL Kepler B Kest JM Kiefel ML Cooper RJ Bodnar Role of gender, gonadectomy and estrous phase in the analgesic effects of intracerebroventricular morphine in rats Pharmacol Biochem Behav 34 1989 119 127
31. KL Kepler KM Standifer D Paul B Kest GW Pasternak RJ Bodnar Gender effects and central opioid analgesia Pain 45 1991 87 94
32. KA Lehmann B Tenbuhs Patient-controlled analgesia with nalbuphine, a new narcotic agonist-antagonist, for the treatment of postoperative pain Eur J Clin Pharmacol 31 1986 267 276
33. RA Levy HK Proudfit Analgeia produced by microinjection of baclofen and morphine at brain stem sites Eur J Pharmacol 57 1979 43 55
34. S Lipa M Kavaliers Sex differences in the inhibitory effects of the NMDA antagonist, MK-801, on morphine and stress-induced analgesia Brain Res Bull 24 1990 627 630
35. SS Liu HW Allen Gl Olsson Patient-controlled epidural analgesia with bupivacaine and fentanyl on hospital wards. Prospective experience in 1,030 surgical patients Anesthesiology 88 1998 688 695
36. HJ McQuay RES Bullingham GMC Paterson RA Moore Clinical effects of buprenorphine during and after operation Br JAnaesth 52 1980 1013 1019
37. AC Pande RE Pyke M Greiner GL Wideman R Benjamin MW Pierce Analgesic efficacy of enadoline versus placebo or morphine in postsurgical pain Clin Neuropharmacol 19 1996 451 456
38. AC Pande RE Pyke M Greiner Analgesic efficacy of the kappa-receptor agonist, enadoline, in dental surgery pain Clin Neuropharmacol 19 1996 92 97
39. GD Parbrook DG Dalrymple DF Steel Personality assessment and postoperative pain and complications J Psychosom Res 17 1973 277 285
40. GD Parbrook DF Steel DG Dalrylmple Factors predisposing to postoperative pain and pulmonary complications. A study of male patients undergoing elective gastric surgery Br J Anaesth 45 1973 21 33
41. CL Peck Psychological factors in acute pain management MJ Cousins GD Phillips Acute pain management 1986 Churchill Livingstone New York 251 274
42. JG Petros EB Rimm RJ Robillard Factors influencing urinary tract retention after elective cholecystectomy Surg Gynecol Obstet 174 1992 497 500
43. T Reisine G Paternak Opioid analgesics and antagonists JG Hardman LE Limbird Goodman and Gilman's the pharmacologic basis of therapeutics 1996 McGraw-Hill New York 521 555
44. JL Riley ME Robinson EA Wise CD Myers RB Fillingim Sex differences in the perception of noxious experimental stimuli: a meta-analysis Pain 74 1998 181 187
45. WC Shyu EA Morgenthien KA Pittman RH Barbhaiya The effects of age and sex on the systemic availability and pharmacokinetics of transnasal butorphanol Eur J Clin Pharmacol 47 1994 57 60
46. D Sidebotham MRJ Dijkhuizen SA Schug The safety and utilization of patient controlled analgesia J Pain Symptom Manage 14 1997 202 209
47. A Tamsen U Bondesson B Dahlström P Hartvig Part: Patient-controlled analgesic therapy III. pharmacokinetics and analgesic plasma concentrations of ketobemidone Clin Pharmacokinet 7 1982 151 165
48. A Tamsen P Hartvig C Fagerlund B Dahlström Patient-controlled analgesic therapy. Part I: pharmacokinetics of pethidine in the pre- and postoperative periods Clin Pharmacokinet 7 1982 149 163
49. NM Taylor GM Hall P Salmon Patients' experiences of patient-controlled analgesia Anaesthesia 51 1996 525 528
50. SL Tsui MG Irwin CM Wong An audit of the safety of an acute pain service Anaesthesia 52 1997 1042 1047
51. SL Tsui WN Tong M Irwin KFJ Ng WS Chan J Yang The efficacy, applicability and side effects of postoperative intravenous patient-controlled morphine analgesia: an audit of 1233 Chinese patients Anaesth Intens Care 24 1996 658 664
52. AM Unruh Gender variations in clinical pain experience Pain 65 1996 123 167
53. PJQ Watson HJ McQuay RES Bullingham MC Allen RA Moore Single-dose comparison of buprenorphine 0.3 and 0.6 mg I.V. given after operation: clinical effects and plasma concentrations Br J Anaesth 54 1982 37 43
54. PR Wilson TL Yaksh Baclofen is antinociceptive in the spinal intrathecal space of animals Eur J Pharmacol 51 1978 323 330
55. SJ Wilson JK Errick J Balkon Pharmacokinetics of nalbuphine during parturition Am J Obstet Gynecol 155 1986 340 344
56. TL Yaksh SV Reddy Studies in the primate on the analgetic effects associated with intrathecal actions of opiates, alpha-adrenergic agonists and baclofen Anesthesiology 54 1981 451 467
57. W Zieglgansberger Dorsal horn neuropharmacology: baclofen and morphine Ann NY Acad Sci 531 1988 150 156