Preclinical animal anxiety research–flaws and prejudices

A Ennaceur, PL Chazot - Pharmacology research & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The current tests of anxiety in mice and rats used in preclinical research include the elevated
plus‐maze (EPM) or zero‐maze (EZM), the light/dark box (LDB), and the open‐field (OF) …

Ketamine use disorder: preclinical, clinical, and neuroimaging evidence to support proposed mechanisms of actions

L Vines, D Sotelo, A Johnson, E Dennis… - Intelligent …, 2022 - mednexus.org
Ketamine, a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, has been
exclusively used as an anesthetic in medicine and has led to new insights into the …

Repeated ketamine exposure induces an enduring resilient phenotype in adolescent and adult rats

EM Parise, LF Alcantara, BL Warren, KN Wright… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Major depressive disorder afflicts up to 10% of adolescents. However, nearly
50% of those afflicted are considered nonresponsive to available treatments. Ketamine, a …

Ketamine and its metabolite,(2R, 6R)-HNK, restore hippocampal LTP and long-term spatial memory in the Wistar-Kyoto rat model of depression

LR Aleksandrova, YT Wang, AG Phillips - Molecular brain, 2020 - Springer
Accumulating evidence implicates dysregulation of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in the
pathophysiology of depression. However, the effects of ketamine on synaptic plasticity and …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic administration of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist ketamine improves Rett syndrome phenotype

A Patrizi, N Picard, AJ Simon, G Gunner… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurological disorder caused by mutation of the X-
linked MECP2 gene, which results in the progressive disruption of excitatory and inhibitory …

Subchronic ketamine alters behaviour, metabolic indices and brain morphology in adolescent rats: Involvement of oxidative stress, glutamate toxicity and caspase-3 …

AY Onaolapo, OJ Ayeni, MO Ogundeji, A Ajao… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic agent whose recreational use amongst adolescents
and young adults is reaching epidemic proportions in a number of countries. While animal …

Effects of ketamine, dexmedetomidine and propofol anesthesia on emotional memory consolidation in rats: consequences for the development of post-traumatic stress …

M Morena, A Berardi, A Peloso, D Valeri… - Behavioural brain …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or emergency care patients, exposed to traumatic events,
are at increased risk for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) development. Commonly …

Doxycycline prevents and reverses schizophrenic-like behaviors induced by ketamine in mice via modulation of oxidative, nitrergic and cholinergic pathways

B Ben-Azu, IA Omogbiya, AO Aderibigbe… - Brain Research …, 2018 - Elsevier
The involvement of oxidative, nitrergic, cholinergic and inflammatory alterations have been
reported to contribute to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, a debilitating …

Ketamine evoked disruption of entorhinal and hippocampal spatial maps

FK Masuda, EA Aery Jones, Y Sun… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ketamine, a rapid-acting anesthetic and acute antidepressant, carries undesirable spatial
cognition side effects including out-of-body experiences and spatial memory impairments …

Antioxidant treatment with N-acetyl cysteine prevents the development of cognitive and social behavioral deficits that result from perinatal ketamine treatment

A Phensy, HE Duzdabanian, S Brewer… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Alterations of the normal redox state can be found in all stages of schizophrenia, suggesting
a key role for oxidative stress in the etiology and maintenance of the disease …