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SUBMITTER: Harraz MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5509634 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Harraz Maged M MM Snyder Solomon H SH
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 20170701 3
The weeks/months it takes for traditional antidepressants to act pose an obstacle in the management of depression. Ketamine's prompt and sustained antidepressant effects constitute a major advance. Multiple studies implicate glutamatergic signaling to protein synthesis machinery and synapse formation in ketamine's antidepressant effects. Here we review evidence linking ketamine to glutamate receptor subtypes and protein homeostasis. We describe a signaling cascade wherein nitric oxide drives the ...[more]