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6.3 Antidepressant actions: In a study of postoperative depression, which is common among patients undergoing cancer surgery, patients who received dezocine in addition to a pain medication had lower scores on the Beck Depression Inventory than did patients who received the pain medication alone.32 In mouse models of "depressive-like" behaviors—the forced swim task and tail suspension task—immobility is used as a proxy for the clinical state. In both tasks, dezocine dose-dependently reduced immobility, with no other motor effects. The reduction in immobility was blocked by the serotonin 1A receptor antagonist Way100635 and by the κopioid receptor agonist U50,488, consistent with dezocine acting via serotonin and κ-opioid receptors.31 [...] Given that depression often co-occurs with OUD,55,56 these pharmacological effects of dezocine could be beneficial in treating OUD [...] Dezocine may have antidepressant activity that could be helpful in treating persons with OUD.
Treatment with dezocine combined with sufentanil can signifcantly reduce the symptoms of postoperative depression and improve sleep quality in patients (Zhao et al. 2020), because of the antidepressant efects of dezocine that appear to be mediated by 5-HT1A receptors and κ-opioid receptors (Shang et al. 2021).
6.3 Antidepressant actions: In a study of postoperative depression, which is common among patients undergoing cancer surgery, patients who received dezocine in addition to a pain medication had lower scores on the Beck Depression Inventory than did patients who received the pain medication alone.32 In mouse models of "depressive-like" behaviors—the forced swim task and tail suspension task—immobility is used as a proxy for the clinical state. In both tasks, dezocine dose-dependently reduced immobility, with no other motor effects. The reduction in immobility was blocked by the serotonin 1A receptor antagonist Way100635 and by the κopioid receptor agonist U50,488, consistent with dezocine acting via serotonin and κ-opioid receptors.31 [...] Given that depression often co-occurs with OUD,55,56 these pharmacological effects of dezocine could be beneficial in treating OUD [...] Dezocine may have antidepressant activity that could be helpful in treating persons with OUD.
Dezocine has been found to inhibit both the serotonin and norepinephrine uptake transporters [1]. This led to the investigation and discovery that dezocine has antidepressant activity in patients treated post-operatively for pain [22]. Anti-depressant activity of dezocine was also verified in a rodent model [23]. It has been known that depression is a major comorbidity in chronic pain and opioid use disorder [24]. Substituting dezocine for methadone or buprenorphine for opioid use disorder would have the added benefit of treating the major comorbidity depression along with its other favorable properties of reduced respiratory depression and lack of addiction.
Treatment with dezocine combined with sufentanil can signifcantly reduce the symptoms of postoperative depression and improve sleep quality in patients (Zhao et al. 2020), because of the antidepressant efects of dezocine that appear to be mediated by 5-HT1A receptors and κ-opioid receptors (Shang et al. 2021).
6.3 Antidepressant actions: In a study of postoperative depression, which is common among patients undergoing cancer surgery, patients who received dezocine in addition to a pain medication had lower scores on the Beck Depression Inventory than did patients who received the pain medication alone.32 In mouse models of "depressive-like" behaviors—the forced swim task and tail suspension task—immobility is used as a proxy for the clinical state. In both tasks, dezocine dose-dependently reduced immobility, with no other motor effects. The reduction in immobility was blocked by the serotonin 1A receptor antagonist Way100635 and by the κopioid receptor agonist U50,488, consistent with dezocine acting via serotonin and κ-opioid receptors.31 [...] Given that depression often co-occurs with OUD,55,56 these pharmacological effects of dezocine could be beneficial in treating OUD [...] Dezocine may have antidepressant activity that could be helpful in treating persons with OUD.
Dezocine has been found to inhibit both the serotonin and norepinephrine uptake transporters [1]. This led to the investigation and discovery that dezocine has antidepressant activity in patients treated post-operatively for pain [22]. Anti-depressant activity of dezocine was also verified in a rodent model [23]. It has been known that depression is a major comorbidity in chronic pain and opioid use disorder [24]. Substituting dezocine for methadone or buprenorphine for opioid use disorder would have the added benefit of treating the major comorbidity depression along with its other favorable properties of reduced respiratory depression and lack of addiction.