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Published in final edited form as: Adv Pharmacol. 2015 Dec 17;75:217–243. doi: 10.1016/bs.apha.2015.10.001

Table 1.

Multiple effects of NOP receptor-related ligands on regulating pain processing.

NOP receptor-related ligands Findings in rodents Findings in primates
NOP Receptor Agonists (Peptides)

N/OFQ Spinal, Acute pain ↓
  (Xu et al., 1996)
  (Erb et al., 1997)
  (King et al., 1997)
  (Yamamoto et al., 1997a)
Spinal, Acute pain ↓
  (Ko et al., 2006)
  (Ko & Naughton, 2009)
Spinal, Acute pain ↑
  (Inoue et al., 1999)
  (Sakurada et al., 1999)
Spinal, Inflammatory pain ↓
  (Yamamoto et al., 1997b)
  (Hao et al., 1998)
  (Chen & Sommer, 2007)
Spinal, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Yamamoto & Nozaki-Taguchi, 1997)
  (Corradini et al., 2001)
  (Courteix et al., 2004)
Supraspinal, Acute pain ↑
  (Meunier et al., 1995)
  (Reinscheid et al., 1995)
Supraspinal, Acute pain ↓
  (Ding et al., 2015b)
Supraspinal, Inflammatory pain ↑
  (Zhu et al., 1997)
  (Wang et al., 1999a)

[Phe1ψ(CH2-NH)Gly2]N/OFQ-(1–13)-NH2 Supraspinal, Acute pain ↑
  (Calo et al., 1998)
  (Wang et al., 1999b)
Supraspinal, Inflammatory pain ↑
  (Bertorelli et al., 1999)

UFP-112 Spinal, Acute pain ↓
  (Rizzi et al., 2007)
  (Calo et al., 2011)
Spinal, Acute pain ↓
  (Hu et al., 2010)
Spinal, Capsaicin-induced allodynia ↓
  (Hu et al., 2010)

PWT2-N/OFQ Spinal, Acute pain ↓
  (Rizzi et al., 2015)
Spinal, Acute pain ↓
  (Rizzi et al., 2015)
Spinal, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Rizzi et al., 2015)

NOP Receptor Agonists (Non-peptides)

Ro64-6198 Spinal, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Obara et al., 2005)
Systemic, Acute pain ↓
  (Reiss et al., 2008)
Systemic, Acute pain ↓
  (Ko et al., 2009)
Systemic, Acute pain ↑
  (Reiss et al., 2008)
Systemic, Inflammatory pain ↓
  (Sukhtankar et al., 2014)
Systemic, Capsaicin-induced allodynia ↓
  (Ko et al., 2009)

Ro65-6570 Supraspinal, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Schiene et al., 2013)
Systemic, Inflammatory pain ↓
  (Schiene et al., 2013)
Supraspinal, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Schiene et al., 2013)

GRT-TA2210 Supraspinal, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Linz et al., 2013)
Systemic, Inflammatory pain ↓
  (Linz et al., 2013) `

SCH 221510 Systemic, Inflammatory pain ↓
  (Sobczak et al., 2013)
  (Sobczak et al., 2014)
Systemic, Acute pain ↓
  (Cremeans et al., 2012)
Systemic, Inflammatory pain ↓
  (Wladischkin et al., 2012)
Systemic, Capsaicin-induced allodynia ↓
  (Wladischkin et al., 2012)

NOP Receptor Antagonist

UFP-101 Supraspinal, Acute pain ↓
  (Rizzi et al., 2006)
Supraspinal, Inflammatory pain ↓
  (Scoto et al., 2009)
Supraspinal, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Scoto et al., 2009)

Mixed NOP/MOP Receptor Agonists

[Dmt1]N/OFQ(1–13)-NH2 Spinal, Acute pain ↓
  (Calo et al., 2012)
Spinal, Acute pain ↓
  (Molinari et al., 2013)

SR16435 Spinal, Inflammatory pain ↓
  (Sukhtankar et al., 2013)
Spinal, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Sukhtankar et al., 2013)
Systemic, Acute pain ↓
  (Khroyan et al., 2009)

SR14150 Systemic, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Khroyan et al., 2011b)

SR16835 Systemic, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Khroyan et al., 2011b)

BU08028 Spinal, Inflammatory pain ↓
  (Sukhtankar et al., 2013)
Spinal, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Sukhtankar et al., 2013)
Systemic, Acute pain ↓
  (Khroyan et al., 2011a)
Systemic, Acute pain ↓
  (Ding et al., 2015a)
Systemic, Capsaicin-induced allodynia ↓
  (Ding et al., 2015a)

Cebranopadol Systemic, Acute pain ↓
  (Linz et al., 2014)
Systemic, Inflammatory pain ↓
  (Linz et al., 2014)
Systemic, Neuropathic pain ↓
  (Linz et al., 2014)

↓, antinociception or antihypersensitivity; ↑, pronociception or hypersensitivity