Fig. 3. Effect of ketamine on calcium dynamics for dendritic spines in the primary motor cortex.
a Left, coronal histological section, showing the extent of AAV-mediated expression of GCaMP6f in the primary motor cortex, M1. Right, schematic of imaging location. b The normalized difference in the rate of spontaneous calcium events for apical dendritic spines in M1. Normalized difference was calculated as post-injection minus pre-injection values normalized by the pre-injection value (ketamine (10 mg/kg): −7 ± 2%, mean ± s.e.m.; saline: −2 ± 2% for saline; P = 0.05, two-sample t-test). For ketamine, n = 124 dendritic spines from 3 animals. For saline, n = 120 dendritic spines from 3 animals. c The normalized difference in amplitude (ketamine (10 mg/kg): −7 ± 2%; saline: −5 ± 2%; P = 0.004, two-sample t-test) and frequency of binned calcium events (2 ± 2% for ketamine; −1 ± 1% for saline; P = 0.3, two-sample t-test). *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001; n.s., not significant.