PMID- 20580983 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110303 LR - 20181201 IS - 0165-1781 (Print) IS - 0165-1781 (Linking) VI - 185 IP - 1-2 DP - 2011 Jan 30 TI - Propofol pretreatment increases antidepressant-like effects induced by acute administration of ketamine in rats receiving forced swimming test. PG - 248-53 LID - 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.04.046 [doi] AB - Animal and clinical studies have demonstrated that ketamine has quick, obvious and persistent antidepressant-like effect, but such side effects as cardiovascular system excitement and hallucinogenic activity have limited its clinical application. Intravenous anesthetic propofol can remarkably inhibit or eliminate ketamine's side effects including cardiovascular system excitement and hallucinogenic activity even in a sub-anesthesia dose. However, effect of propofol on rapid antidepressant-like action induced by ketamine still remains unclear. The present study aimed to investigate effect of pretreatment with propofol on the ketamine-induced rapid antidepressant-like action in rats receiving forced swimming test. Open field test and forced swimming test were used to investigate behavior changes of rats receiving different medication. Expression of brain derived neurotrophic factors (BDNF) and a-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA) pGluR1-Ser845 in hippocampus was measured with sandwich-ELISA and Western Blot, respectively. Results demonstrated that rats receiving propofol alone showed neither antidepressant-like effects nor increased BDNF content; pretreatment with propofol could increase the ketamine-induced antidepressant-like effects and the expression of AMPA pGluR1-Ser845 in hippocampus, but could not further reinforce the increased BDNF content induced by ketamine in hippocampus; after AMPA receptor was antagonized, the strengthening effect of propofol on ketamine-induced antidepressant-like action significantly decreased. The results indicated that propofol in a sub-anesthetic dose could increase the ketamine-induced antidepressant-like effect. CI - Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Wang, Xiaobin AU - Wang X AD - Infection and Immunology Research Laboratory, Affiliated Hospital of Luzhou Medical College, Luzhou, Sichuan Province, China, 646000. wangxiaobin67@yahoo.cn FAU - Yang, Yilin AU - Yang Y FAU - Zhou, Xian AU - Zhou X FAU - Wu, Jiali AU - Wu J FAU - Li, Jiali AU - Li J FAU - Jiang, Xian AU - Jiang X FAU - Qu, Qiang AU - Qu Q FAU - Ou, Cehua AU - Ou C FAU - Liu, Li AU - Liu L FAU - Zhou, Shuzhi AU - Zhou S LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20100523 PL - Ireland TA - Psychiatry Res JT - Psychiatry research JID - 7911385 RN - 0 (Antidepressive Agents) RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Receptors, AMPA) RN - 690G0D6V8H (Ketamine) RN - TFZ3H25BS1 (glutamate receptor ionotropic, AMPA 1) RN - YI7VU623SF (Propofol) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antidepressive Agents/*therapeutic use MH - Behavior, Animal/drug effects MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/metabolism MH - Depression/*drug therapy/pathology MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Dose-Response Relationship, Drug MH - Drug Administration Schedule MH - Drug Synergism MH - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay/methods MH - Exploratory Behavior/drug effects MH - Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects MH - Hippocampus/metabolism MH - Immobility Response, Tonic/drug effects MH - Ketamine/*therapeutic use MH - Male MH - Propofol/*therapeutic use MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar MH - Receptors, AMPA/metabolism MH - Swimming/*psychology EDAT- 2010/06/29 06:00 MHDA- 2011/03/04 06:00 CRDT- 2010/06/29 06:00 PHST- 2009/09/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2010/03/30 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2010/04/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2010/06/29 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/06/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/03/04 06:00 [medline] AID - S0165-1781(10)00232-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.04.046 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Psychiatry Res. 2011 Jan 30;185(1-2):248-53. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.04.046. Epub 2010 May 23.