Fig. 3. Place preference for nicotine is persistently enhanced in adult male mice after early repeated ketamine anesthesia.
a–c Early repeated ketamine anesthesia does not affect place preference for low-dose ketamine in adult mice (ketamine CPP). a Experimental scheme of ketamine CPP performed in adult male mice. b Place preference to low-dose ketamine does not occur in both Control (p = 0.074) and anesthesia (p = 0.183) groups (paired t test; control, n = 26; anesthesia, n = 25). c Summary graph comparing ketamine CPP scores between groups (p = 0.858, student’s t test; control, n = 26; anesthesia, n = 25). d–e Nicotine-induced place preference occurred only in mice that received early repeated ketamine anesthesia (nicotine-CPP). d Time spent in the nicotine-paired (white) chamber was significantly increased after conditioning in the anesthesia (p = 0.011) but not in the control (p = 0.172) group (paired t test; control, n = 18, anesthesia, n = 17). e Summary graph comparing nicotine-CPP scores between groups (p = 0.894, Welch ANOVA; control, n = 18, Anesthesia, n = 17). Values are presented as means ± SD (n.s., not significant; *p < 0.05).