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ArticleBMC neuroscience2019

Ketamine affects the integration of developmentally generated granule neurons in the adult stage.

Zhanqiang Zhao, Bing Li, Yuqing Wu, Xujun Chen, Yan Guo, Yang Shen, He Huang

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Article in BMC neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhanqiang ZhaoDepartment of Anesthesiology, Jiangning Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Bing LiDepartment of Anesthesiology, Jiangning Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Yuqing WuJiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Anesthesiology, Xuzhou, China.
Xujun ChenDepartment of Anesthesiology, Jiangning Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Yan GuoDepartment of Anesthesiology, Jiangning Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Yang ShenDepartment of Anesthesiology, Jiangning Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
He HuangDepartment of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital With Nanjing Medical University, Guangzhou Road 300, Nanjing, 210029, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. 353550575@qq.com.ORCID 0000-0003-1573-1204
Nanjing Jiangning Hospital · CNNanjing Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundKetamine has been reported to cause neonatal neurotoxicity in a variety of developing animal models. Various studies have been conducted to study the mechanism of neurotoxicity for general anesthetic use during the neonatal period. Previous experiments have suggested that developmentally generated granule neurons in the hippocampus dentate gyrus (DG) supported hippocampus-dependent memory. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether ketamine affects the functional integration of developmentally generated granule neurons in the DG. For this purpose,the postnatal day 7 (PND-7) Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were divided into the control group and the ketamine group (rats who received 4 injections of 40 mg/kg ketamine at 1 h intervals). To label dividing cells, BrdU was administered for three consecutive days after the ketamine exposure; NeuN+/BrdU+cells were observed by using immunofluorescence. To evaluate the developmentally generated granule neurons that support hippocampus-dependent memory, spatial reference memory was tested by using Morris Water Maze at 3 months old, after which the immunofluorescence was used to detect c-Fos expression in the NeuN

resultsThe present results showed that the neonatal ketamine exposure did not influence the survival rate of developmentally generated granule neurons at 2 and 3 months old, but ketamine interfered with the integration of these neurons into the hippocampal DG neural circuits and caused a deficit in hippocampal-dependent spatial reference memory tasks.

conclusionsIn summary, these findings may promote more studies to investigate the neurotoxicity of ketamine in the developing brain.

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AnimalsAntigens, NuclearBromodeoxyuridineCaspase 3Cell SurvivalDentate GyrusExcitatory Amino Acid AntagonistsKetamineMaleMaze LearningMemory DisordersNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuronsRandom AllocationRats, Sprague-DawleySpatial MemoryAntigens, NuclearBromodeoxyuridineCasp3 protein, ratCaspase 3Excitatory Amino Acid AntagonistsKetamineNerve Tissue ProteinsRbfox3 protein, ratDentate gyrusFunctional integrationKetamineLearningMorris water mazeNeural circuitsRat

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