Journal
PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
Volume 247, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2022.113708
Keywords
Ketamine; Memory; Aggression and anxiety-like behavior; Stereotyped behavior; Zebrafish
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Funding
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior [CAPES/PROEX 23038.004173/2019-93, 88887.210053/2018-00, 88882.182160/2018-01, 88882.182130/2018-01]
- CAPES [88882.182130/2018-01]
- CNPq [305051/2018-0, 311082/2014-9]
- FAPERGS Programa Pesquisador Gaucho -PQG fellowship [19/25510001764-2]
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This study investigated the effects of Ketamine on zebrafish behavior and found that acute exposure to Ketamine can slightly impair memory, while repeated exposure can lead to stereotyped behavior. However, locomotion, anxiety, aggression, and cortisol levels did not change after repeated exposure.
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic in human and veterinary clinic, as well as an abuse drug that acts on several neurotransmitter systems. The use of alternative animal models, such as zebrafish, is emerging to study the effects of drugs on neurobehavioral responses. Here, we evaluated the effects of ketamine on memory consolidation (acute protocol), as well as on anxiety-, aggressive-like behavior, and whole-body cortisol levels in adult zebrafish after a repeated exposure. For the acute protocol, fish were tested in the inhibitory avoidance task (training and testing with a 24-hour interval). Immediately after the training session, fish were exposed to ketamine (0, 2, 20, or 40 mg/L) for 20 min. The exploratory activity was also measured 24 h after acute exposure to exclude the influence of impaired locomotion on memory performance. For the repeated exposure, animals were exposed to the same concentrations of ketamine for 20 min (7 days). After the last exposure (24 h later), anxietyand aggression-like behaviors were quantified in the novel tank and mirror-induced aggression tests, respectively, as well as whole-body cortisol levels measurements were performed. The highest ketamine concentration tested (40 mg/L) acutely induced a slight memory impairment in the inhibitory avoidance task without changing locomotion and anxiety-like behaviors. Although locomotion, anxiety-, aggressive-like behaviors, and wholebody cortisol levels did not change after repeated exposure, 40 mg/L ketamine increased circling behavior. Overall, our data reinforce that ketamine acutely affects multiple behavioral domains in zebrafish, in which repeated ketamine exposure elicits stereotyped behavior, without changing locomotion, aggression, and anxiety/ stress-related parameters.
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