The Toxic Effect of Ketamine on SH-SY5Y Neuroblastoma Cell Line and Human Neuron
The Toxic Effect of Ketamine on SH-SY5Y Neuroblastoma Cell Line and Human Neuron
复制标题
DOI:
10.1002/jemt.20774
复制
发表时间:
2010-03-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Yew, David T.
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Mak, Ying T.;Lam, Wai P.;Yew, David T.
Ketamine used as an injectable anesthetic in human and animal medicine is also a recreational drug used primarily by young adults often at all night dance parties in nightclubs. The percentage of ketamine users has grown very fast in the last 5 years worldwide. However, this leads to the serious question of the long-term adverse effects of ketamine on our nervous system, particularly the brain, because ketamine as an NMDA antagonist could Cause neurons to commit apoptosis. Our study therefore aimed to find out the chronic effect of ketamine on neuron using prolonged incubation (48 h) of neuronal cells with ketamine in culture. Out, results showed that differentiated neuronal cells were prone to the toxicity of ketamine but probably less susceptible than undifferentiated neuronal cells and fibroblasts. This suggested that the ketamine abuse would be harmful to many other organs as well as the brain. Our results also confirmed that the toxicity of ketamine is related to apoptosis via the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio pathway and caspase-3 in the differentiated neuronal cells. Therefore, long-term ketamine treated cell or animal models should be sought to study this multiorgan effects of ketamine. Microsc. Res. Tech. 73:195-201, 2010. (c) Wiley-Liss Inc.