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A nonbarbiturate anesthetic consisting of ketamine HCl (Ketaset) and xlyazine (Rompun) was administered to assess the effects of anesthesia on hypothermia-induced retrograde amnesia in Long Evans hooded and Sprague-Dawley albino rats. Results from Experiment 1a indicate that this anesthetic does not attenuate retrograde amnesia, and the findings from Experiment 1b suggest that awakening from Ketaset/Rompun anesthesia at normal body temperature (following administration of deep body cooling) does not attenuate the resulting hypothermia-induced retrograde amnesia. Experiment 2 demonstrated that various delays between training and hypothermia resulted in a temporal gradient that was the same for animals cooled while either conscious or under anesthesia. The results of Experiment 3 showed that rats made amnesic while under anesthesia did not recover the target memory if given a recooling treatment, but rats that were made amnesic while conscious did recover the memory with the same reminder treatment. These findings indicate that the conscious processing of stimuli associated with hypothermia treatment is not necessary in inducing hypothermia-induced retrograde amnesia, but that conscious processing is an important factor if the amnesia is to be recovered with a recooling treatment.
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PMID:Differential effects of Ketaset/Rompun anesthesia on hypothermia-induced retrograde amnesia and its recovery. 856 78

In studies of experimentally induced retrograde amnesia (RA), as the interval between training and the amnestic treatment is lengthened, amnesia decreases (4). This temporal gradient for RA has been reported with a wide variety of amnestic agents, including RA produced by thermoregulatory disturbances (8). This temporal gradient for RA is not unlike certain characteristics of classical conditioning, where weaker conditioned responding occurs when the interval between the conditioned stimulus (CS) and unconditioned stimulus (US) is lengthened. Furthermore, there is evidence that administration of anesthetics can lengthen the "effective conditioning" interval between the CS and US, as demonstrated in a conditioned taste-aversion (CTA) procedure (10). In that study, little conditioning was observed when a 3-h delay (or more) was incorporated between presentations of the CS (flavor) and the US (toxin). However, if subjects were anesthetized immediately after the CS was delivered and remained anesthetized during the CS-US interval, strong conditioning was observed with CS-US intervals of up to 9 h. The aim of the present experiment was to determine if the temporal gradient for hypothermia-induced RA could also be lengthened. That is, we tested whether the interval between training and hypothermia treatment could be lengthened by anesthetizing subjects with Ketaset-Rompun. The results indicate that the training-to-amnestic agent interval could be lengthened within moderate limits. The implications for hypothermia-induced RA is further discussed.
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PMID:Ketaset-Rompun extends the temporal gradient for hypothermia-induced retrograde amnesia. 1040