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Reduced sensitivity to ketamine and pentobarbital in mice lacking the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor GluRepsilon1 subunit.
Anesthesia and analgesia - 1 Oct 2004
Petrenko Andrey B, Yamakura Tomohiro, Fujiwara Naoshi, Askalany Ahmed R, Baba Hiroshi, Sakimura Kenji
Abstract excerpt
Ketamine is an IV anesthetic with N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)-blocking properties. However, it is still unclear whether ketamine's general anesthetic actions are mediated primarily via blockade of NMDAR. Functional NMDARs are composed by the assembly of a GluRzeta1 (NR1) subunit with GluRepsilon (GluRepsilon1-4; NR2A-D) subunits, which confer unique properties on native NMDARs. We hypothesized that...
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