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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2016

Ketamine: NMDA Receptors and Beyond.

Charles F Zorumski, Yukitoshi Izumi, Steven Mennerick

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 122 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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122citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

122 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 240 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Charles F ZorumskiDepartment of Psychiatry, Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research, and Center for Brain Research in Mood Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110 zorumskc@wustl.edu.
Yukitoshi IzumiDepartment of Psychiatry, Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research, and Center for Brain Research in Mood Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.
Steven MennerickDepartment of Psychiatry, Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research, and Center for Brain Research in Mood Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.ORCID 0000-0003-0868-0664
Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric ResearchHope Center for Neurological Disorders · US

Funding

CONTROL OF SYNAPTIC GLUTAMATE RELEASER01MH078823 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MENNERICK, STEVEN J · 2006 to 2015
$3.2M
MODULATION OF HIPPOCAMPAL SYNAPTIC PLASTICITYR01MH077791 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI ZORUMSKI, CHARLES F · 2007 to 2013
$2.4M
Oxysterols and NMDAR FunctionR01MH101874 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MENNERICK, STEVEN J, ZORUMSKI, CHARLES F · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
ETHANOL, NEUROSTEROIDS & HIPPOCAMPAL PLASTICITYR01AA017413 · NIAAA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI ZORUMSKI, CHARLES F · 2009 to 2013
$1.8M
NEUROSTEROIDS AND ANXIETY RELATED NETWORK FUNCTIONR21MH104506 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MENNERICK, STEVEN J · 2014 to 2015
$406k
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA017413NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH077791NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH078823NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH101874NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH104506
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human studies examining the effects of the dissociative anesthetic ketamine as a model for psychosis and as a rapidly acting antidepressant have spurred great interest in understanding ketamine's actions at molecular, cellular, and network levels. Although ketamine has unequivocal uncompetitive inhibitory effects on N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) and may preferentially alter the function of NMDARs on interneurons, recent work has questioned whether block of NMDARs is critical for its mood enhancing actions. In this viewpoint, we examine the evolving literature on ketamine supporting NMDARs as important triggers for certain psychiatric effects and the possibility that the antidepressant trigger is unrelated to NMDARs. The rapidly evolving story of ketamine offers great hope for untangling and treating the biology of both depressive and psychotic illnesses.

Indexed as

KetamineAnimalsBrainEvidence-Based MedicineHallucinogensHumansPsychoses, Substance-InducedReceptors, N-Methyl-D-AspartateSchizophreniaHallucinogensKetamineNR2C NMDA receptorReceptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartateantidepressanthippocampusketaminememantinepsychotomimetic

Identifiers

PMID27807158
PMCPMC5148235
OpenAlexW2546531144

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