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- M Irifune, T Shimizu, M Nomoto, and T Fukuda.
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Japan.
- Brain Res. 1992 Nov 20; 596 (1-2): 1-9.
AbstractThe role of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-channel complex in ketamine-induced anesthesia was examined in mice. General anesthetic potencies were evaluated on a rating scale, which provided the data for anesthetic scores, loss of righting reflex, sleeping time and recovery time. All drugs were administered intraperitoneally. NMDA (60-300 mg/kg), an NMDA receptor agonist, dose-dependently antagonized the general anesthetic potencies of ketamine at a dose of 100 mg/kg which produced loss of righting reflex in more than 90% of the mice. On the other hand, a high dose of N-methyl-L-aspartate (400 mg/kg), a stereoisomer of NMDA, did not. A dose of 300 mg/kg of NMDA significantly shifted the dose-response curve of ketamine for loss of righting reflex to the right. A high dose of D-cycloserine (200 mg/kg), an agonist at the glycine site on the NMDA receptor complex, slightly but significantly shortened the sleeping time caused by ketamine (100 mg/kg). However, neither a critical subconvulsive dose of kainate (15 mg/kg), a kainate receptor agonist, nor a subconvulsive dose of quisqualate (120 mg/kg), an alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA) receptor agonist, reversed general anesthesia induced by 100 mg/kg of ketamine.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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