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Libânio TC, Eufrásio RA, Niigaki SS, Peres FF, Silva RH, Zuardi AW, Hallak JEC, Crippa JAS, Calzavara MB, Abílio VC. Harmine impairs memory performance of treated rats and nontreated cagemates. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 2022; 30:751-759. [PMID: 34735205 DOI: 10.1037/pha0000525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The interest in psychedelic substances as potential treatments for psychiatric disorders is increasing. The β-carboline harmine, an Ayahuasca component, presents hallucinogenic and antidepressant effects. Although Ayuahuasca-and consequently harmine-is usually consumed in rituals, the role of social contexts in the behavioral effects of harmine has not been investigated yet. In this sense, affective states may modulate cohabitants' behavior, including learning/memory. This work investigates the effects of harmine on the learning/memory performance of rats evaluated on the contextual and tone fear conditioning (CFC and TFC) and on the plus-maze discriminative avoidance (PMDAT) tasks. The possible influence of a harmine-treated cohabitant was assessed by evaluating rats housed in homogeneous cages-where all the animals were acutely administered with the same treatment (vehicle, 5, 10, or 15 mg/kg harmine), and in heterogeneous cages-where each animal received a different drug treatment. The main results are: (a) harmine impaired CFC (10 mg/kg) and PMDAT discrimination (all doses); and (b) harmine caused a memory deficit in CFC, TFC, and PMDAT of untreated rats kept in heterogeneous cages. Our results show that harmine induces a memory deficit in tasks with emotional contexts. Further, the cohabitation with animals treated with this drug also seems to impair memory performance of untreated animals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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Almeida V, Peres FF, Levin R, Suiama MA, Calzavara MB, Zuardi AW, Hallak JE, Crippa JA, Abílio VC. Effects of cannabinoid and vanilloid drugs on positive and negative-like symptoms on an animal model of schizophrenia: the SHR strain. Schizophr Res 2014; 153:150-9. [PMID: 24556469 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.01.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2013] [Revised: 01/14/2014] [Accepted: 01/16/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Studies have suggested that the endocannabinoid system is implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. We have recently reported that Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRs) present a deficit in social interaction that is ameliorated by atypical antipsychotics. In addition, SHRs display hyperlocomotion - reverted by atypical and typical antipsychotics. These results suggest that this strain could be useful to study negative symptoms (modeled by a decrease in social interaction) and positive symptoms (modeled by hyperlocomotion) of schizophrenia and the effects of potential drugs with an antipsychotic profile. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of WIN55-212,2 (CB1/CB2 agonist), ACEA (CB1 agonist), rimonabant (CB1 inverse agonist), AM404 (anandamide uptake/metabolism inhibitor), capsaicin (agonist TRPV1) and capsazepine (antagonist TRPV1) on the social interaction and locomotion of control animals (Wistar rats) and SHRs. The treatment with rimonabant was not able to alter either the social interaction or the locomotion presented by Wistar rats (WR) and SHR at any dose tested. The treatment with WIN55-212,2 decreased locomotion (1mg/kg) and social interaction (0.1 and 0.3mg/kg) of WR, while the dose of 1mg/kg increased social interaction of SHR. The treatment with ACEA increased (0.3mg/kg) and decreased (1mg/kg) locomotion of both strain. The administration of AM404 increased social interaction and decreased locomotion of SHR (5mg/kg), and decreased social interaction and increased locomotion in WR (1mg/kg). The treatment with capsaicin (2.5mg/kg) increased social interaction of both strain and decreased locomotion of SHR (2.5mg/kg) and WR (0.5mg/kg and 2.5mg/kg). In addition, capsazepine (5mg/kg) decreased locomotion of both strains and increased (5mg/kg) and decreased (10mg/kg) social interaction of WR. Our results indicate that the schizophrenia-like behaviors displayed by SHR are differently altered by cannabinoid and vanilloid drugs when compared to control animals and suggest the endocannabinoid and the vanilloid systems as a potential target for the treatment of schizophrenia.
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- Valéria Almeida
- Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP/EPM, Brazil; Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociências Clínicas (LiNC), Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP/EPM, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP/EPM, Brazil; Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociências Clínicas (LiNC), Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP/EPM, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP/EPM, Brazil; Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociências Clínicas (LiNC), Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP/EPM, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP/EPM, Brazil; Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociências Clínicas (LiNC), Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP/EPM, Brazil
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- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociências Clínicas (LiNC), Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP/EPM, Brazil
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- Department of Neuroscience and Behavior, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; National Institute for Translational Medicine (INCT-TM, CNPq), Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Neuroscience and Behavior, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; National Institute for Translational Medicine (INCT-TM, CNPq), Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Neuroscience and Behavior, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; National Institute for Translational Medicine (INCT-TM, CNPq), Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP/EPM, Brazil; Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociências Clínicas (LiNC), Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP/EPM, Brazil.
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Levin R, Peres FF, Almeida V, Calzavara MB, Zuardi AW, Hallak JEC, Crippa JAS, Abílio VC. Effects of cannabinoid drugs on the deficit of prepulse inhibition of startle in an animal model of schizophrenia: the SHR strain. Front Pharmacol 2014; 5:10. [PMID: 24567721 PMCID: PMC3915876 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2014.00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2013] [Accepted: 01/17/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Clinical and neurobiological findings suggest that the cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system may be implicated in the pathophysiology and treatment of schizophrenia. We described that the spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) strain presents a schizophrenia behavioral phenotype that is specifically attenuated by antipsychotic drugs, and potentiated by proschizophrenia manipulations. Based on these findings, we have suggested this strain as an animal model of schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of cannabinoid drugs on the deficit of prepulse inhibition (PPI) of startle, the main paradigm used to study sensorimotor gating impairment related to schizophrenia, presented by the SHR strain. The following drugs were used: (1) WIN55212,2 (cannabinoid agonist), (2) rimonabant (CB1 antagonist), (3) AM404 (anandamide uptake inhibitor), and (4) cannabidiol (CBD; indirect CB1/CB2 receptor antagonist, among other effects). Wistar rats (WRs) and SHRs were treated with vehicle (VEH) or different doses of WIN55212 (0.3, 1, or 3 mg/kg), rimonabant (0.75, 1.5, or 3 mg/kg), AM404 (1, 5, or 10 mg/kg), or CBD (15, 30, or 60 mg/kg). VEH-treated SHRs showed a decreased PPI when compared to WRs. This PPI deficit was reversed by 1 mg/kg WIN and 30 mg/kg CBD. Conversely, 0.75 mg/kg rimonabant decreased PPI in SHR strain, whereas AM404 did not modify it. Our results reinforce the role of the endocannabinoid system in the sensorimotor gating impairment related to schizophrenia, and point to cannabinoid drugs as potential therapeutic strategies.
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- Raquel Levin
- Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociãncias Clínicas, Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociãncias Clínicas, Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociãncias Clínicas, Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociãncias Clínicas, Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Neuroscience and Behavior, University of São PauloRibeirão Preto, Brazil
- National Institute of Science and Technology in Translational Medicine, National Council for Scientific and Technological DevelopmentRibeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Neuroscience and Behavior, University of São PauloRibeirão Preto, Brazil
- National Institute of Science and Technology in Translational Medicine, National Council for Scientific and Technological DevelopmentRibeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Neuroscience and Behavior, University of São PauloRibeirão Preto, Brazil
- National Institute of Science and Technology in Translational Medicine, National Council for Scientific and Technological DevelopmentRibeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
- Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociãncias Clínicas, Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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Almeida V, Levin R, Peres FF, Niigaki ST, Calzavara MB, Zuardi AW, Hallak JE, Crippa JA, Abílio VC. Cannabidiol exhibits anxiolytic but not antipsychotic property evaluated in the social interaction test. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2013; 41:30-5. [PMID: 23127569 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2012.10.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2012] [Revised: 10/26/2012] [Accepted: 10/30/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychotomimetic compound of the Cannabis sativa, has been reported to have central therapeutic actions, such as antipsychotic and anxiolytic effects. We have recently reported that Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRs) present a deficit in social interaction that is ameliorated by atypical antipsychotics. In addition, SHRs present a hyperlocomotion that is reverted by typical and atypical antipsychotics, suggesting that this strain could be useful to study negative symptoms (modeled by a decrease in social interaction) and positive symptoms (modeled by hyperlocomotion) of schizophrenia as well as the effects of potential antipsychotics drugs. At the same time, an increase in social interaction in control animals similar to that induced by benzodiazepines is used to screen potential anxiolytic drugs. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of CBD on social interaction presented by control animals (Wistar) and SHRs. The lowest dose of CBD (1mg/kg) increased passive and total social interaction of Wistar rats. However, the hyperlocomotion and the deficit in social interaction displayed by SHRs were not altered by any dose of CBD. Our results do not support an antipsychotic property of cannabidiol on symptoms-like behaviors in SHRs but reinforce the anxiolytic profile of this compound in control rats.
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- Valéria Almeida
- Departamento de Farmacologia da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP, Brazil
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Hoexter MQ, Fadel G, Felício AC, Calzavara MB, Batista IR, Reis MA, Shih MC, Pitman RK, Andreoli SB, Mello MF, Mari JJ, Bressan RA. Higher striatal dopamine transporter density in PTSD: an in vivo SPECT study with [(99m)Tc]TRODAT-1. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2012; 224:337-45. [PMID: 22700036 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-012-2755-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2012] [Accepted: 05/24/2012] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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RATIONALE Some evidence suggests a hyperdopaminergic state in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The 9-repetition allele (9R) located in the 3' untranslated region of the dopamine transporter (DAT) gene (SLC6A3) is more frequent among PTSD patients. In vivo molecular imaging studies have shown that healthy 9R carriers have increased striatal DAT binding. However, no prior study evaluated in vivo striatal DAT density in PTSD. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate in vivo striatal DAT density in PTSD. METHODS Twenty-one PTSD subjects and 21 control subjects, who were traumatized but asymptomatic, closely matched comparison subjects evaluated with the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale underwent a single-photon emission computed tomography scan with [(99m)TC]-TRODAT-1. DAT binding potential (DAT-BP) was calculated using the striatum as the region of the interest and the occipital cortex as a reference region. RESULTS PTSD patients had greater bilateral striatal DAT-BP (mean ± SD; left, 1.80 ± 0.42; right, 1.78 ± 0.40) than traumatized control subjects (left, 1.62 ± 0.32; right, 1.61 ± 0.31; p = 0.039 for the left striatum and p = 0.032 for the right striatum). CONCLUSIONS These results provide the first in vivo evidence for increased DAT density in PTSD. Increases in DAT density may reflect higher dopamine turnover in PTSD, which could contribute to the perpetuation and potentiation of exaggerated fear responses to a given event associated with the traumatic experience. Situations that resemble the traumatic event turn to be interpreted as highly salient (driving attention, arousal, and motivation) in detriment of other daily situations.
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- Marcelo Q Hoexter
- Instituto do Cérebro, Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa do Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Kameda SR, Fukushiro DF, Trombin TF, Procópio-Souza R, Patti CL, Hollais AW, Calzavara MB, Abílio VC, Ribeiro RA, Tufik S, D'Almeida V, Frussa-Filho R. Adolescent mice are more vulnerable than adults to single injection-induced behavioral sensitization to amphetamine. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2011; 98:320-4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2011.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2010] [Revised: 01/11/2011] [Accepted: 01/18/2011] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Alvarenga TA, Patti CL, Andersen ML, Silva RH, Calzavara MB, Lopez GB, Frussa-Filho R, Tufik S. Paradoxical sleep deprivation impairs acquisition, consolidation, and retrieval of a discriminative avoidance task in rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2008; 90:624-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2008] [Revised: 07/09/2008] [Accepted: 07/22/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Kameda SR, Frussa-Filho R, Carvalho RC, Takatsu-Coleman AL, Ricardo VP, Patti CL, Calzavara MB, Lopez GB, Araujo NP, Abílio VC, Ribeiro RDA, D'Almeida V, Silva RH. Dissociation of the effects of ethanol on memory, anxiety, and motor behavior in mice tested in the plus-maze discriminative avoidance task. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2007; 192:39-48. [PMID: 17242924 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0684-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2006] [Accepted: 12/18/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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RATIONALE Several studies have shown the amnestic effects of ethanol (ETOH). However, while memory tasks in rodents can be markedly influenced by anxiety-like behavior and motor function, ETOH induces anxiolysis and different effects on locomotion, depending on the dose. OBJECTIVE Verify the effects of ETOH in mice tested in the plus-maze discriminative avoidance task (PMDAT) concomitantly evaluating memory, anxiety-like behavior, and motor behavior. METHODS ETOH acutely or repeatedly treated mice were submitted to the training session in a modified elevated plus-maze with two open and two enclosed arms, aversive stimuli in one of the enclosed arms, and tested 24 h later without aversive stimuli. Learning/memory, locomotion, and anxiety-related behavior were evaluated by aversive arm exploration, number of entries in all the arms and open arms exploration, respectively. RESULTS Acute ETOH: (1) either increased (1.2-1.8 g/kg) or decreased (3.0 g/kg) locomotion; (2) decreased anxiety levels (1.2-3.0 g/kg); and (3) induced learning deficits (1.2-3.0 g/kg) and memory deficits (0.3-3.0 g/kg). After repeated treatment, sensitization and tolerance to hyperlocomotion and anxiolysis induced by 1.8 g/kg ETOH were observed, respectively, and tolerance to the amnestic effect of 0.6 (but not 1.8) g/kg ETOH occurred. CONCLUSION Neither the anxiolytic nor the locomotor effects of ETOH seem to be related to its amnestic effect in the PMDAT. Additionally, data give support to the effectiveness of the PMDAT in simultaneously evaluating learning, memory, anxiety-like behavior, and motor activity by different parameters. Possible relationships between the behavioral alterations found are discussed.
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- S R Kameda
- Departamento de Pediatria, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Andersen ML, Perry JC, Battisti MC, Calzavara MB, Costa JL, Neto ON, Frussa-Filho R, Tufik S. Association of paradoxical sleep deprivation and ecstasy (MDMA) enhances genital reflexes in male rats. Behav Brain Res 2006; 170:287-92. [PMID: 16621058 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2005] [Revised: 02/24/2006] [Accepted: 03/07/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ecstasy ((+/-)3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA) is a psychostimulant and a synthetic derivative of amphetamine that, according to its consumers, promotes the enhancement of sexual pleasure. This study sought to investigate the effects of ecstasy in the genital reflexes of paradoxical sleep deprived (PSD) male rats. Distinct groups of PSD rats were administered with saline or different doses of ecstasy. The incidence of genital reflexes was verified for 100 min. The four doses that were used induced genital reflexes in PSD animals and these significantly differed from their respective treated control groups. Under the influence of two intermediary doses (2.5 and 5mg/kg), all animals displayed erection and ejaculation. The frequency of genital reflexes was also significantly greater than in relation to the PSD-saline group. The comparison between cocaine and ecstasy in PSD rats revealed that ecstasy induced more erections and ejaculations than cocaine. Thus, the present results showed a great enhancement of the genital reflexes of PSD rats that might have occurred due to serotoninergic alterations induced by this illicit substance when associated to sleep deprivation.
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- M L Andersen
- Department of Psychobiology - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Napoleão de Barros, 925, Vila Clementino - SP - 04024-002, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) show behavioural differences when compared to their strain-matched controls. These differences include decreased anxiety-like behaviour in SHR, while both improved performance and behavioural deficits have been reported in learning/memory studies. Considering that alterations in anxiety levels during the training session can modify retention performance in animal models of memory, the aim of the present study was to investigate the role of anxiety levels in the performance of SHR rats in the plus-maze discriminative avoidance task (PM-DAT), in which memory and anxiety are evaluated simultaneously. Adult (5-month-old) and young (45-day-old) SHR and normotensive Wistar rats (NWR) were treated with chlordiazepoxide (CDZ) or saline. Thirty minutes later, rats were submitted to the PM-DAT training session. After 24 h, the test session was performed. The results showed that: (1) adult SHR showed lower anxiety levels compared to adult NWR; (2) adult SHR and NWR, as well as young NWR, showed significant retention of the task, while young SHR showed impaired performance; (3) 5.0 mg/kg CDZ decreased anxiety levels in adult NWR and young and adult SHR; (4) 5.0 mg/kg CDZ impaired retention in adult SHR and NWR and increased retention in young SHR. Our data suggest an important role of anxiety levels in the performance of SHR in a plus-maze discriminative avoidance task.
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- M B Calzavara
- Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Calzavara MB, Patti CL, Lopez GB, Abílio VC, Silva RH, Frussa-Filho R. Role of learning of open arm avoidance in the phenomenon of one-trial tolerance to the anxiolytic effect of chlordiazepoxide in mice. Life Sci 2005; 76:2235-46. [PMID: 15733938 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2004.10.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2004] [Accepted: 10/23/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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A single exposure to the elevated plus-maze (EPM) test of anxiety reduces or abolishes the anxiolytic efficacy of benzodiazepines on a second trial. Some possible explanations to the occurrence of this phenomenon (one-trial tolerance-OTT) involve behavioral modifications thought to be consequence of some kind of learning in the first trial. In the present study, the influence of learning-impairing situations on the effects of the benzodiazepine chlordiazepoxide on mice re-tested in the EPM is investigated. The results showed that: (1) as expected, the administration of chlordiazepoxide to mice re-tested in the EPM- under the same conditions of the first trial- failed to induce anxiolysis; (2) a decreased percent time in the open arms was observed on the second trial of mice exposed to both trials under the same experimental conditions; (3) neither the increase in open arm avoidance by mice re-exposed to the EPM nor the OTT to chlordiazepoxide effect were modified by administration of the amnestic agent scopolamine; (4) the decrement of the duration of the first trial to 1 min or the change in light and noise conditions in both trials counteracted the increase in open arm avoidance on trial 2; (5) none of the later procedures modified the phenomenon of OTT. Although not discarding the modulation exerted by other memory processes in the OTT phenomenon, the results indicate that situations that impair the learned avoidance response to the open arms in the EPM do not modify the phenomenon of OTT.
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- M B Calzavara
- Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Botucatu 862, Edifício José Leal Prado, CEP 04023-062, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Abílio VC, Silva RH, Carvalho RC, Grassl C, Calzavara MB, Registro S, D'Almeida V, Ribeiro RDA, Frussa-Filho R. Important role of striatal catalase in aging- and reserpine-induced oral dyskinesia. Neuropharmacology 2004; 47:263-72. [PMID: 15223305 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2004.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2004] [Revised: 04/06/2004] [Accepted: 04/22/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Tardive dyskinesia, the most serious iatrogenic movement disorder, has been tentatively associated with nigrostriatal dopaminergic supersensitivity and with oxidative stress. It is also suggested that long-term neuroleptic treatment does not cause oral dyskinesia (OD), but interacts with some substrate of brain aging, resulting in the premature emergence of OD, that can occur spontaneously with aging. In order to investigate a possible role of nigrostriatal dopaminergic supersensitivity and of oxidative stress in aging- and reserpine-induced OD, the stereotyped behavior induced by dopaminergic agonists, a functional index of dopaminergic striatal activity, as well as the striatal antioxidant enzymes glutathione peroxidase and catalase were assessed. We demonstrate that, opposite to normotensive Wistar rats (NWR), spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) do not develop aging- or reserpine-OD. There were no differences between NWR and SHR in stereotyped behavior or in striatal glutathione peroxidase activity. Adult and old SHR presented higher striatal catalase activity relative to NWR, and aging increased it only in SHR. The catalase inhibitor aminotriazole reverted the absence of aging- and reserpine-induced OD in SHR. Our results suggest an important role of striatal catalase in the development of reserpine- and aging-induced OD.
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- V C Abílio
- Department of Pharmacology, Escola Paulista de Medicina/Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Edificio José Leal Prado-Rua Botucatu, 862 CEP 04023-062 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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Silva RH, Abílio VC, Takatsu AL, Kameda SR, Grassl C, Chehin AB, Medrano WA, Calzavara MB, Registro S, Andersen ML, Machado RB, Carvalho RC, Ribeiro RDA, Tufik S, Frussa-Filho R. Role of hippocampal oxidative stress in memory deficits induced by sleep deprivation in mice. Neuropharmacology 2004; 46:895-903. [PMID: 15033349 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2003.11.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 225] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2003] [Revised: 11/14/2003] [Accepted: 11/25/2003] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Numerous animal and clinical studies have described memory deficits following sleep deprivation. There is also evidence that the absence of sleep increases brain oxidative stress. The present study investigates the role of hippocampal oxidative stress in memory deficits induced by sleep deprivation in mice. Mice were sleep deprived for 72 h by the multiple platform method-groups of 4-6 animals were placed in water tanks, containing 12 platforms (3 cm in diameter) surrounded by water up to 1 cm beneath the surface. Mice kept in their home cage or placed onto larger platforms were used as control groups. The results showed that hippocampal oxidized/reduced glutathione ratio as well as lipid peroxidation of sleep-deprived mice was significantly increased compared to control groups. The same procedure of sleep deprivation led to a passive avoidance retention deficit. Both passive avoidance retention deficit and increased hippocampal lipid peroxidation were prevented by repeated treatment (15 consecutive days, i.p.) with the antioxidant agents melatonin (5 mg/kg), N-tert-butyl-alpha-phenylnitrone (200 mg/kg) or vitamin E (40 mg/kg). The results indicate an important role of hippocampal oxidative stress in passive avoidance memory deficits induced by sleep deprivation in mice.
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Affiliation(s)
- R H Silva
- Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Botucatu, 862 Ed. Leal Prado, CEP 04023-062 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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