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Record W4415094488 · doi:10.1093/pch/pxaf084

Oral morphine pharmacokinetics in healthy children and the effect of genetic polymorphisms: An exploratory study

2025· article· en· W4415094488 on OpenAlexaff
Lauren Faught, Abdelbaset Elzagallaai, Nicholas C. Tonial, Samina Ali, Natasha Leporé, Jaime Reardon, Bradley L. Urquhart, Colin J.D. Ross, Michael J. Rieder, Naveen Poonai

Bibliographic record

VenuePaediatrics & Child Health · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPediatric Pain Management Techniques
Canadian institutionsLawson Health Research InstituteUniversity of British ColumbiaChildren’s Health Research InstituteStollery Children's HospitalWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPharmacokineticsClinical trialExploratory researchMorphineDrugActive metaboliteOral administration

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Objectives To explore the pharmacokinetics of oral morphine and the potential effect of pharmacogenetics on efficacy and safety in children. Methods Serial blood samples were obtained from healthy children aged 5–17 years. We determined morphine, morphine-6-glucoronide (M6G) and morphine-3-glucoronide (M3G) concentrations and pharmacokinetic parameters. We performed genotyping and collected pain scores. Results A total of 13 children received a single dose of oral morphine 0.5 mg/kg. For morphine, M6G, and M3G, median Tmax was 52.5, 90, and 90 min, respectively. Median Cmax reached 14.07, 53.64, and 309.63 ng/mL, respectively. Median t1/2 was 74.96, 170.73, and 149.45 min, respectively. Median area under the curve was 1757.71, 3290.83, and 43618.97 ng*h/mL, respectively. A single nucleotide polymorphism rs563649 on the OPRMI gene locus was associated with reduced receptor efficiency in one patient reporting an increase in pain. Conclusions Oral morphine’s active metabolites have a longer t1/2 and an OPMR1 SNP rs563649 may underlie variability in efficacy and safety. Clinical Trials Registration: clinicaltrials.gov NCT01690780.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.006

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.298 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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