Amir H Rezvani

Professor, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA, United States

Publications

• Research Article   
  Risk for Opioid Abuse is Diminished by Inhibiting Aldehyde Dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH-2) in Rats
  Author(s): Amir H Rezvani
  
  Significant opiate addiction is known to follow prescribed opiate use for pain. There is a serious unmet need for non-addicting medications to prevent subsequent opiate addiction after a short period of opioid treatment for temporary pain. Recent evidence indicates that selective inhibition of aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH-2) reduces drugseeking and trained self-administration of alcohol, cocaine and nicotine, apparently by preventing a concomitant surge of dopamine in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and nucleus accumbens (NAc). Activation of the same dopaminergic pathway is also implicated in opioid-induced reinforcement. Therefore, we asked whether the selective ALDH-2 inhibitor, ANS-6637, would attenuate opioid selfadministration in drug-naïve rats for opioid self-administration. Rats received oral doses of ANS-6637 (9, 18, 36 or 72 mg/kg) or an equal volume of control vehic.. Read More»
  

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