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. 2005 Sep 5;146(6):826–833. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0706385

Table 1.

IC50 values for ketamine and both enantiomers S(+)- and R(−)-ketamine

  Racemate S(+)-ketamine R(−)-ketamine Stereopotency ratio R(−)/S(+)
  IC50M) Hill IC50M) Hill IC50M) Hill  
Na+ current 199±8 0.74 128±3 1.08 269±9* 0.99 2.10
KDR current (peak) 424±9 0.72 323±2 0.79 363±19 0.72 1.12
KDR current (tail) 338±9 0.78 266±7 0.72 196±33 0.74 0.73

Number of neurons in the parentheses.

*

P<0.05 for difference from S(+)-ketamine.