Opioids are considered as a dangerous addictive substances which are widely used in medicine for their strong analgetic effects. Opioids (such as morphine and methadon) may nevertheless play an important role in the resistance of the heart to ischemia by reducing the rate of cell damage. This protective effect is well understood about morphine but we don't know almost nothing about effects of methadone on the myocardium. The main aim of this thesis was to find out how chronic methadone treatment affects ischemic tolerance of rat hearts. For our experiments we used Wistar rats in two series. In the first series we administered morphine (10 mg/kg/day, i.m.) or methadone (2 mg/kg/day, i.m.) for 10 days. In the second experiment series we administered methadon for 28 days (2 mg/kg/day, i.m.). For analysis of the ischemic heart tolerance we used the isolated perfused heart method. Incidence and severity of ischemia and reperfusion arrhythmias were analyzed during the 50 min of ischemia and early reperfusion. Infarct size was analyzed histochemically, using tetrazolium salts and KMnO4 1 h after reperfusion and was determined by planimetric method. In the first series of experiments analyzing the effect of 10-day administration of both opioids on the resistance of the heart to ischemia we did not find a...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:323593 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Mošovská, Linda |
| Contributors | Neckář, Jan, Říha, Hynek |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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