title: Differential effects of ketamine isomers on neuronal and extraneuronal catecholamine uptake mechanisms.
abstract: Contractile responses of isolated rabbit aortic strips to epinephrine and norepinephrine were potentiated in a dose-related manner by (+) ketamine but not by (-) ketamine (1.1 X 10(-5) M - 3.7 X 10(-4) M). Potentiation was blocked completely by pretreatment with the extraneuronal uptake inhibitor cortisol (83-138 microM) but was unaffected by the neuronal uptake inhibitor cocaine (29 microM). Responses of the rat anococcygeus muscle to these catecholamines were potentiated by both isomers, with (+) ketamine being more potent than its optical antipode. These effects were blocked completely in tissues from 6-hydroxydopamine sympathectomized animals. Results suggest that inhibition of extraneuronal uptake of catecholamines by racemic ketamine is due solely to an action of the (+) isomer, whereas both isomers appear capable of inhibiting neuronal uptake.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001011:Aorta / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D002395:Catecholamines / Q000378:metabolism*; D003042:Cocaine / Q000494:pharmacology; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000494:pharmacology; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007649:Ketamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D009474:Neurons / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D002395:Catecholamines; D007649:Ketamine; D003042:Cocaine; D006854:Hydrocortisone