Effects of arachidonic acid on the spatial cognition of aged rats

Autor:	Yoko Okaichi, Yoshinobu Kiso, Yoshiko Toyoda-Ono, Hiroshige Okaichi, Hiroshi Kawashima, Naoko Tokimoto, Kengo Akimoto
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Morris water navigation task Spatial cognition Hippocampal formation Open field Developmental psychology chemistry.chemical_compound Endocrinology chemistry Internal medicine medicine Arachidonic acid Psychology General Psychology
Zdroj:	Japanese Psychological Research. 48:115-122
ISSN:	1468-5884 0021-5368
DOI:	10.1111/j.1468-5884.2006.00312.x
Popis:	To examine the effects of arachidonic acid (AA) on age-related cognitive deficits, Fischer 344 rats were given an AA-supplemented powder diet for 12 weeks from 18.6 months old as part of the old AA (OA) group. Other age-matched rats were fed a non-AA-supplemented powder diet as part of the old control (OC) group, and young rats were fed lab pellets as part of the young control (YC) group. When the aged rats reached 20.0 months old, all animals were tested for spontaneous activity in an open field, followed by the Morris water maze place and cue tasks. Escape latencies for the place task showed that the YC rats were fastest, and there was no difference between the OA and OC groups. However, the probe test and the first block of the cue task indicated that the OA rats remembered the location of an invisible platform better than the OC rats. Although the amount of hippocampal AA was larger in the OA rats than in the OC rats, the difference was not significant. The results showed that AA administration to aged animals may alleviate age-related deficits in spatial cognition.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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