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XB-ART-54619
Front Mol Neurosci 2018 Feb 07;11:9. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00009.
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Ketamine Modulates Zic5 Expression via the Notch Signaling Pathway in Neural Crest Induction.

Shi Y , Li J , Chen C , Xia Y , Li Y , Zhang P , Xu Y , Li T , Zhou W , Song W .


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Ketamine is a potent dissociative anesthetic and the most commonly used illicit drug. Many addicts are women at childbearing age. Although ketamine has been extensively studied as a clinical anesthetic, its effects on embryonic development are poorly understood. Here, we applied the Xenopus model to study the effects of ketamine on development. We found that exposure to ketamine from pre-gastrulation (stage 7) to early neural plate (stage 13.5) resulted in disruption of neural crest (NC) derivatives. Ketamine exposure did not affect mesoderm development as indicated by the normal expression of Chordin, Xbra, Wnt8, and Fgf8. However, ketamine treatment significantly inhibited Zic5 and Slug expression at early neural plate stage. Overexpression of Zic5 rescued ketamine-induced Slug inhibition, suggesting the blockage of NC induction was mediated by Zic5. Furthermore, we found Notch signaling was altered by ketamine. Ketamine inhibited the expression of Notch targeted genes including Hes5.2a, Hes5.2b, and ESR1 and ketamine-treated embryos exhibited Notch-deficient somite phenotypes. A 15 bp core binding element upstream of Zic5 was induced by Notch signaling and caused transcriptional activation. These results demonstrated that Zic5 works as a downstream target gene of Notch signaling in Xenopus NC induction. Our study provides a novel teratogenic mechanism whereby ketamine disrupts NC induction via targeting a Notch-Zic5 signaling pathway.

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Species referenced: Xenopus
Genes referenced: chrd dlx3 dlx5 esr1 fgf8 hes5 hes5.2 msx1 myod1 notch1 pax3 six1 snai2 tbxt tfap2a tubb2b tubb3 wnt8a zic1 zic5
GO keywords: Notch signaling pathway [+]
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References [+] :
Akeju, Ketamine exposure in early development impairs specification of the primary germ cell layers. 2014, Pubmed