Healthy right-handed volunteers aged 21 to 50 needed for a research study of the effects of morphine and ketorolac on brain activity in response to pain stimuli as measured by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Study will be conducted on six separate days not requiring an overnight stay in the hospital.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
51
Integrated MR-PET scan using \[11C\]diprenorphine
3 administrations of ketorolac over course of study
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States
fMRI Signal Changes
Obtain information about brain activity, including BOLD (Blood-oxygen-level dependent) signal, using an fMRI system. Data analysis was applied using SPM 12 with a standard pipeline.
Time frame: one day
Pain Ratings
The primary endpoint was the morphine and ketorolac conditioning effects as indicated by subjective pain rating changes between pain only (a control condition with no injection of glucose, but subject's did see an image of an hour glass displaying how much time they had before receiving a painful stimulus) and pain+glucose (subjects received a glucose injection accompanied by an injection schematic followed by a painful stimulus) within the morphine and ketorolac groups. We used the Gracely pain rating scale (ranging from 0, no sensation to 20, extremely painful).
Time frame: One day
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