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ArticleExpert review of neurotherapeutics2014

What is hydroxynorketamine and what can it bring to neurotherapeutics?

Nagendra S Singh, Carlos A Zarate, Ruin Moaddel, Michel Bernier, Irving W Wainer

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Article in Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Antidepressant-relevant concentrations of the ketamine metabolite (2Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  11. Molecular Pharmacology and Neurobiology of Rapid-Acting Antidepressants.Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology · 2019
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  16. New targets for rapid antidepressant action.Progress in neurobiology · 2017
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  19. Ketamine Mechanism of Action: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nagendra S SinghLaboratory of Clinical Investigation, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD , USA.
Carlos A Zarate
Ruin Moaddel
Michel Bernier
Irving W Wainer
National Institutes of Health · USInstitute on Aging · USNational Institute on Aging · US

Funding

Disease Status Drug Metabolism and New Drug Discovery ZIAAG000297 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI EGAN, JOSEPHINE · 2009 to 2025
$38.2M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AG999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(R,S)-Ketamine was initially developed as an anesthetic agent and its pharmacological properties were determined on the basis of this clinical use. However, pharmacological studies in rat led to the development of the 'Ketamine Paradigm', whereby (R,S)-ketamine and its N-demethylated metabolite (R,S)-norketamine were deemed the active compounds whereas the other ketamine metabolites were considered inactive. Recent in vivo and in vitro studies with (2S,6S)-hydroxynorketamine, a previously identified 'inactive' metabolite, have demonstrated that this compound is an active and selective inhibitor of the α7 subtype of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and that this activity contributes to the pharmacological responses associated with the antidepressant activity of (R,S)-ketamine. Thus, it appears that it is necessary to reassess the 'Ketamine Paradigm' in regards to the use of sub-anesthetic doses of (R,S)-ketamine in the treatment of treatment-resistant depression.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntidepressive AgentsDepressive Disorder, Treatment-ResistantHumansKetamineRatsAntidepressive AgentsKetaminenorketaminedepressionD-serinenicotinic acetylcholine receptorsNMDA receptorserine racemase

Identifiers

PMID25331415
PMCPMC5990010
OpenAlexW2041828151

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