Altered object exploration but not temporal order memory retrieval in an object recognition test following treatment of rats with the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist LY379268

Temporal order memory refers to the ability to distinguish past experiences in the order that they occurred. Temporal order memory for objects is often tested in rodents using spontaneous object recognition paradigms. The circuitry mediating memory in these tests is distributed and involves ionotrop...

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Main Authors: Lins, Brittney, Ballendine, S.A., Howland, J.G.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81126
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author Lins, Brittney
Ballendine, S.A.
Howland, J.G.
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Ballendine, S.A.
Howland, J.G.
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description Temporal order memory refers to the ability to distinguish past experiences in the order that they occurred. Temporal order memory for objects is often tested in rodents using spontaneous object recognition paradigms. The circuitry mediating memory in these tests is distributed and involves ionotropic glutamate receptors in the perirhinal cortex and medial prefrontal cortex. It is unknown what role, if any, metabotropic glutamate receptors have in temporal order memory for objects. The present experiment examined the role of metabotropic glutamate receptors in temporal memory retrieval using the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor selective agonist LY379268. Rats were trained on a temporal memory test with three phases: two sample phases (60. min between them) in which rats explored two novel objects and a test phase (60. min after the second sample phase) which included a copy of each object previously encountered. Under these conditions, we confirmed that rats showed a significant exploratory preference for the object presented during the first sample phase. In a second experiment, we found that LY379268 (0.3, 1.0, or 3.0. mg/kg; i.p.; 30. min before the test phase) had no effect on temporal memory retrieval but dose-dependently reduced time spent exploring the objects. Our results show that enhancing mGluR2 activity under conditions when TM is intact does not influence memory retrieval. © 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-811262021-01-15T06:58:29Z Altered object exploration but not temporal order memory retrieval in an object recognition test following treatment of rats with the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist LY379268 Lins, Brittney Ballendine, S.A. Howland, J.G. Cognition Delayed recency discrimination Medial prefrontal cortex Metabotropic glutamate receptor Spontaneous object recognition Amino Acids Animals Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic Discrimination, Psychological Exploratory Behavior Male Memory Rats, Long-Evans Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate Recognition, Psychology Time Factors Temporal order memory refers to the ability to distinguish past experiences in the order that they occurred. Temporal order memory for objects is often tested in rodents using spontaneous object recognition paradigms. The circuitry mediating memory in these tests is distributed and involves ionotropic glutamate receptors in the perirhinal cortex and medial prefrontal cortex. It is unknown what role, if any, metabotropic glutamate receptors have in temporal order memory for objects. The present experiment examined the role of metabotropic glutamate receptors in temporal memory retrieval using the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor selective agonist LY379268. Rats were trained on a temporal memory test with three phases: two sample phases (60. min between them) in which rats explored two novel objects and a test phase (60. min after the second sample phase) which included a copy of each object previously encountered. Under these conditions, we confirmed that rats showed a significant exploratory preference for the object presented during the first sample phase. In a second experiment, we found that LY379268 (0.3, 1.0, or 3.0. mg/kg; i.p.; 30. min before the test phase) had no effect on temporal memory retrieval but dose-dependently reduced time spent exploring the objects. Our results show that enhancing mGluR2 activity under conditions when TM is intact does not influence memory retrieval. © 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81126 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.12.016 eng restricted
spellingShingle Cognition
Delayed recency discrimination
Medial prefrontal cortex
Metabotropic glutamate receptor
Spontaneous object recognition
Amino Acids
Animals
Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic
Discrimination, Psychological
Exploratory Behavior
Male
Memory
Rats, Long-Evans
Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate
Recognition, Psychology
Time Factors
Lins, Brittney
Ballendine, S.A.
Howland, J.G.
Altered object exploration but not temporal order memory retrieval in an object recognition test following treatment of rats with the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist LY379268
title Altered object exploration but not temporal order memory retrieval in an object recognition test following treatment of rats with the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist LY379268
title_full Altered object exploration but not temporal order memory retrieval in an object recognition test following treatment of rats with the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist LY379268
title_fullStr Altered object exploration but not temporal order memory retrieval in an object recognition test following treatment of rats with the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist LY379268
title_full_unstemmed Altered object exploration but not temporal order memory retrieval in an object recognition test following treatment of rats with the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist LY379268
title_short Altered object exploration but not temporal order memory retrieval in an object recognition test following treatment of rats with the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist LY379268
title_sort altered object exploration but not temporal order memory retrieval in an object recognition test following treatment of rats with the group ii metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist ly379268
topic Cognition
Delayed recency discrimination
Medial prefrontal cortex
Metabotropic glutamate receptor
Spontaneous object recognition
Amino Acids
Animals
Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic
Discrimination, Psychological
Exploratory Behavior
Male
Memory
Rats, Long-Evans
Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate
Recognition, Psychology
Time Factors
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81126