{"id":145628,"date":"2022-09-04T23:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T04:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-discover-that-a-surprising-factor-improved-the-effects-of-ketamine-in-mice"},"modified":"2022-09-04T23:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T04:22:19","slug":"scientists-discover-that-a-surprising-factor-improved-the-effects-of-ketamine-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-discover-that-a-surprising-factor-improved-the-effects-of-ketamine-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover That a Surprising Factor Improved The Effects of Ketamine in Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-that-a-surprising-factor-improved-the-effects-of-ketamine-in-mice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Maryland psychiatrist Polymnia Georgiou and colleagues accidentally came across an unexpected example of researchers unwittingly skewing a study\u2019s results when their laboratory mice\u2019s reactions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ketamine\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">ketamine<\/a> differed depending on the sex of the humans who administered the drug.<\/p>\n<p>To check it wasn\u2019t just a weird fluke, they did a blinded, randomized trial with an even mix of male and female experimenters. The mice indeed had a greater antidepressant response to ketamine when handled by male humans.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the presence of male humans does not somehow change the properties of ketamine, so the researchers probed deeper to confirm the exact mechanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Maryland psychiatrist Polymnia Georgiou and colleagues accidentally came across an unexpected example of researchers unwittingly skewing a study\u2019s results when their laboratory mice\u2019s reactions to ketamine differed depending on the sex of the humans who administered the drug. To check it wasn\u2019t just a weird fluke, they did a blinded, randomized trial with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}