Depression: Ketamine steps out of the darkness

Nature. 2016 May 26;533(7604):477-8. doi: 10.1038/nature17897. Epub 2016 May 4.

Abstract

The way in which ketamine exerts its antidepressant effects has been perplexing. Evidence that a metabolite of the drug is responsible, and acts on a different target from ketamine, might be the key to an answer.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antidepressive Agents / metabolism*
  • Antidepressive Agents / pharmacology*
  • Female
  • Ketamine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Ketamine / metabolism*
  • Ketamine / pharmacology
  • Male

Substances

  • Antidepressive Agents
  • Ketamine
  • 6-hydroxynorketamine