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de Bruin NM, Ellenbroek BA, Cools AR, Coenen AM, van Luijtelaar EL.
“Differential effects of ketamine on gating of auditory evoked potentials and prepulse inhibition in rats”.
Psychopharmacology Berl. 1999 Feb 26;142(1):9-17.
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Abstract
Schizophrenic patients suffer from deficits in information processing. Patients show both a decrease in P50 gating [assessed in the conditioning-testing C-T paradigm] and prepulse inhibition PPI, two paradigms that assess gating. These two paradigms might have a related underlying neural substrate. Gating, as measured in both the C-T paradigm the gating of a component of the auditory evoked potential AEP], and PPI can easily be measured in animals as well as in humans. This offers the opportunity to model these information processing paradigms in animals in order to investigate the effects of neurotransmitter manipulations in the brain. In order to validate the animal model for disturbances in AEP gating, d-amphetamine 0.5 and 1 mg/kg, i.p. was administered. Gating of an AEP component was changed due to injection of d-amphetamine 1 mg/kg in the same way as seen in schizophrenic
PATIENTS: both the amplitude to the conditioning click and the gating were significantly reduced. Next, the effect of the N-methyl-D-aspartate NMDA antagonist ketamine 2.5 and 10 mg/kg, i.p. was investigated to assess its effects in the two gating paradigms. It was found that ketamine 10 mg/kg did not affect gating as measured with components of the AEP. However, ketamine 10 mg/kg disrupted PPI of the startle response to the extent that prepulse facilitation occurred. Firstly, it is concluded that AEP gating was disrupted by d-amphetamine and not by ketamine. Secondly, PPI and the C-T paradigm reflect distinct inhibitory sensory processes, since both paradigms are differentially influenced by ketamine.
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