Assessing memory in mice using habituation of nose-poke responding
| Autor: | Brodkin J |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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SWISS WEBSTER medicine.medical_specialty Scopolamine Mice Inbred Strains Present procedure Audiology Nose poke law.invention Mice Operant conditioning chamber Species Specificity law medicine Animals Habituation Habituation Psychophysiologic Pharmacology Dose-Response Relationship Drug business.industry Psychiatry and Mental health Mental Recall Exploratory Behavior business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Behavioural Pharmacology. 10:445-451 |
| ISSN: | 0955-8810 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00008877-199909000-00002 |
| Popis: | The present experiments investigated the validity and utility of measuring the habituation of a nose-poke response to assess memory in mice. Mice were placed in an operant chamber equipped with two holes in one wall. Nose-poke responses were recorded by the interruption of a photo-beam across the openings of the holes. Responding produced no consequences. Nose-poke responding was recorded over 20 min for one-four daily sessions. Habituation, as defined by a decrease in the number of nose-pokes over time, was observed during sessions as well as between daily sessions. When the inter-session interval was increased from 1 to 8 days, habituation decayed in a time-dependent manner indicating memory was involved in the habituation phenomenon. CD-1, C57/BL and Swiss Webster X DBA mouse strains all displayed robust time-dependent habituation. Scopolamine, in CD-1 mice, dose-dependently disrupted habituation in an anterograde (0.1-1 mg/kg) and retrograde (1-10 mg/kg) procedure. The present procedure provides a rapid and novel method to assess habituation in a variety of strains of mice and may be a useful addition to existing procedures for measuring memory function in mice. |
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