Metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 blockade impairs acquisition and retention in a spatial Water maze task
| Autor: | Xavier Langlois, Chistophe Van Dyck, Thomas Steckler, Ana F.M. Oliveira, Anne Simone Josephine Lesage, Hansfried Van Craenendonck, Ana M.A. Mateus, Jos Prickaerts |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Psychiatrie en Neuropsychologie, Neuropsychology & Psychopharmacology, RS: FPN NPPP II |
| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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medicine.drug_class Glutamate receptor Retention Psychology Spatial Behavior Water maze Pharmacology Receptors Metabotropic Glutamate Anxiolytic Blockade Mice Inbred C57BL Behavioral Neuroscience Mice Metabotropic receptor Metabotropic glutamate receptor Space Perception medicine Quinolines Metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 Animals Psychology Receptor Maze Learning Neuroscience Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists |
| Zdroj: | Behavioural Brain Research, 164, 52-60. Elsevier Science |
| ISSN: | 0166-4328 |
| Popis: | Metabotropic glutamate receptors, including the mGlu1 receptor, have received considerable attention as potential targets for anxiolytic, antidepressant, antipsychotic and antinociceptive drugs. mGlu1 receptors have also been suggested to play a role in the modulation of cognitive processes, but knowledge is still very limited. In the present study the effects of the selective mGlu1 receptor antagonist 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrano[2,3]beta-quinolin-7-yl)(cis-4-methoxycyclohexyl)methanone (JNJ16259685, 0.63-10 mg/kg s.c.) on more or less spatially demanding learning and spatial memory (retention and re-acquisition) were investigated in mice performing in a water maze. Selective mGlu1 receptor blockade with JNJ16259685 impaired spatial acquisition processes, irrespective of spatial load, as well as spatial re-acquisition, already at the lowest dose tested (0.63 mg/kg). In contrast, effects on spatial retention performance were relatively mild in mice that had learned to locate the position of the escape platform prior to treatment. Thigmotaxic behaviour and locomotor activity appeared to be unaffected by JNJ16259685. These data suggest that blockade of the mGlu1 receptor primarily affects learning of new information, but leaves retention of spatial information relatively unaffected. Blockade of the mGlu5 receptor with MPEP also impaired spatial learning, although only at the highest dose tested (10 mg/kg). An ex vivo receptor occupancy study in rats revealed that MPEP occupied central mGlu5 receptors with an ED(50) of 2.0 mg/kg one hour after subcutaneous administration. This is 50-150 times higher than the ED(50) reported for JNJ16259685 at central mGlu1 receptors and suggests that one reason why the two compounds cause cognitive effects at different doses might be due to differences in central mGlu receptor occupancy, rather than fundamentally different roles of mGlu1 and mGlu5 receptors in the modulation of cognitive function. |
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