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4312916 1612994 2013 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Social isolation induces deficit of latent learning performance in mice: a putative animal model of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
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علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Social isolation induces deficit of latent learning performance in mice: a putative animal model of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
چکیده انگلیسی

Social isolation of rodents (SI) elicits a variety of stress responses such as increased aggressiveness, hyper-locomotion, and reduced susceptibility to pentobarbital. To obtain a better understanding of the relevance of SI-induced behavioral abnormalities to psychiatric disorders, we examined the effect of SI on latent learning as an index of spatial attention, and discussed the availability of SI as an epigenetic model of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Except in specially stated cases, 4-week-old male mice were housed in a group or socially isolated for 3–70 days before experiments. The animals socially isolated for 1 week or more exhibited spatial attention deficit in the water-finding test. Re-socialized rearing for 5 weeks after 1-week SI failed to attenuate the spatial attention deficit. The effect of SI on spatial attention showed no gender difference or correlation with increased aggressive behavior. Moreover, SI had no effect on cognitive performance elucidated in a modified Y-maze or an object recognition test, but it significantly impaired contextual and conditional fear memory elucidated in the fear-conditioning test. Drugs used for ADHD therapy, methylphenidate (1–10 mg/kg, i.p.) and caffeine (0.5–1 mg/kg, i.p.), improved SI-induced latent learning deficit in a manner reversible with cholinergic but not dopaminergic antagonists. Considering the behavioral features of SI mice together with their susceptibility to ADHD drugs, the present findings suggest that SI provides an epigenetic animal model of ADHD and that central cholinergic systems play a role in the effect of methylphenidate on SI-induced spatial attention deficit.


► Social isolation (SI) rearing for ≥1 week caused spatial attention deficit in mice.
► Re-socialized rearing for 5 weeks after 1-week SI failed to attenuate the deficit.
► The deficit showed no gender dependence or correlation with increased aggressiveness.
► Drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) therapy improved the deficit.
► SI likely provides an epigenetic animal model of ADHD.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Behavioural Brain Research - Volume 238, 1 February 2013, Pages 146–153
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