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ArticlePloS one2021

Subanesthetic ketamine rapidly alters medial prefrontal miRNAs involved in ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis.

Yunjung Choi, Baeksun Kim, Suji Ham, Sooyoung Chung, Sungho Maeng, Hye-Sun Kim, Heh-In Im

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 52% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Ketamine and Evolving Neuroplasticity.Clinical drug investigation · 2026
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  2. The Role of microRNA in Anaesthetics-induced Brain Injury: A Narrative Review.Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation · 2025
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  4. HumanFrontiers in neuroscience · 2025
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  7. MicroRNAs, Stem Cells in Bipolar Disorder, and Lithium Therapeutic Approach.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Yunjung ChoiConvergence Research Center for Diagnosis, Treatment and Care System of Dementia, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, South Korea.
Baeksun KimConvergence Research Center for Diagnosis, Treatment and Care System of Dementia, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, South Korea.
Suji HamConvergence Research Center for Diagnosis, Treatment and Care System of Dementia, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, South Korea.
Sooyoung ChungCenter for Neuroscience, Brain Science Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea.
Sungho MaengCollege of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea.
Hye-Sun KimDepartment of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
Heh-In ImConvergence Research Center for Diagnosis, Treatment and Care System of Dementia, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-4763-5009
Convergence Research Center for Diagnosis Treatment and Care System of Dementia · KRKorea Institute of Brain Science · KRSeoul National University · KRKyung Hee University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic and a non-competitive NMDAR antagonist. At subanesthetic dose, ketamine can relieve pain and work as a fast-acting antidepressant, but the underlying molecular mechanism remains elusive. This study aimed to investigate the mode of action underlying the effects of acute subanesthetic ketamine treatment by bioinformatics analyses of miRNAs in the medial prefrontal cortex of male C57BL/6J mice. Gene Ontology and KEGG pathway analyses of the genes putatively targeted by ketamine-responsive prefrontal miRNAs revealed that acute subanesthetic ketamine modifies ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis. Validation analysis suggested that miR-148a-3p and miR-128-3p are the main players responsible for the subanesthetic ketamine-mediated alteration of ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis through varied regulation of ubiquitin ligases E2 and E3. Collectively, our data imply that the prefrontal miRNA-dependent modulation of ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis is at least partially involved in the mode of action by acute subanesthetic ketamine treatment.

Indexed as

ProteolysisAnesthetics, DissociativeAnimalsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationGene OntologyKetamineMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMicroRNAsModels, BiologicalMolecular Sequence AnnotationPrefrontal CortexUbiquitinAnesthetics, DissociativeKetamineMicroRNAsUbiquitin

Identifiers

PMID34437591
PMCPMC8389495
OpenAlexW3196100770

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