• D V Salonin, O V Perepelkina, N V Markina, I A Gichenok, G D Kuznetsova, and I I Poletaeva.
• Lomonosov State University, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
• Zh Vyssh Nerv Deyat+. 2004 Mar 1;54(2):277-82.

AbstractThe remote effects of neonatal (on the 3d-to-9th postnatal days) ketamine injections (10 and 50 mg/kg in 20 microliters of distilled water, s.c.) were analyzed in adult Wistar, WAG/Rij, and KM (a strain with high audiogenic sensitivity) rats. Both ketamine and water injections increased pain sensitivity in adult rats. Neonatally injected water increased the mean score of seizures in Wistar and WAG/Rij, whereas ketamine water solution injected in the dose of 50 mg/kg did not change the seizure intensity (as compared to the intact control). Consequently, ketamine significantly reduced the mean score of the audiogenic seizure fit without change in its latency. In highly sensitive KM rats the neonatally injected ketamine (50 mg/kg) significantly shortened the mean latency of the fit onset, and fit stages developed faster. Thus, the neonatal ketamine injection increased the audiogenic seizure susceptibility of brain structures in KM rats.

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