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S V Kalemenev1, O E Zubareva, E V Frolova, V V Sizov, V V Lavrentyeva, N Ya Lukomskaya, K Kh Kim, A V Zaitsev, L G Magazanik.
Abstract
Cognitive impairment in six-week -old rats has been studied in the lithium-pilocarpine model of adolescent temporal lobe epilepsy in humans. The pilocarpine-treated rats (n =21) exhibited (a) a decreased exploratory activity in comparison with control rats (n = 20) in the open field (OP) test and (b) a slower extinction of exploratory behavior in repeated OP tests. The Morris Water Maze (MWM) test showed that the effect of training was less pronounced in the pilocarpine-treated rats, which demonstrated disruption of predominantly short-term memory. Therefore, our study has shown that lithium-pilocarpine seizures induce substantial changes in exploratory behavior and spatial memory in adolescent rats. OP and MWM tests can be used in the search of drugs reducing cognitive impairments associated with temporal lobe epilepsy.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26335964 DOI: 10.1134/S0012496615040055
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dokl Biol Sci ISSN: 0012-4966