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  • 标题:CHANGES IN CYTOCHROME OXIDASE ACTIVITY FOLLOWING SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY LEARNING IN RATS TREATED WITH TACRINE
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  • 作者:Magdalena Méndez-López ; Marta Méndez ; Laudino López
  • 期刊名称:Psicothema
  • 印刷版ISSN:0214-9915
  • 电子版ISSN:1886-144X
  • 出版年度:2010
  • 卷号:22
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:893-897
  • 出版社:Cologio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado
  • 摘要:We evaluated change in cytochrome oxidase (COx) activity of the hippocampus and related structures of the limbic system following spatial working memory learning in rats after treatment with tacrine (8.0mg/kg). Control groups treated with saline and tacrine and an untreated group were added. Acetylcholinesterase optical density levels were also measured. The tacrine and saline groups showed similar behavioral results, but a decrease in COx activity was found in the tacrine group in the prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, anterior thalamus, hippocampus and nucleus basalis of Meynert. Similarly, acetylcholinesterase levels of the tacrine group were lower in most of the regions. Learning-related increase in COx activity was found in the prefrontal cortex and dentate gyrus in the saline group. The tacrine group presented the same increase in the anterodorsal thalamus, dentate gyrus, CA3 and mammillary nuclei. These results suggest that inhibition of the acetylcholinesterase produces a different pattern of learning-related neuronal activity in the limbic system of the rat.
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