D-CYCLOSERINE REVERSES THE WORKING MEMORY IMPAIRMENT OF HIPPOCAMPAL-LESIONED RATS IN A SPATIAL-LEARNING TASK

被引:83
作者
SCHUSTER, GM [1 ]
SCHMIDT, WJ [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV TUBINGEN,INST ZOOL,DEPT NEUROPHARMACOL,W-7400 TUBINGEN 1,GERMANY
关键词
QUINOLINIC ACID; LEARNING DEFICIT; D-CYCLOSERINE;
D O I
10.1016/0014-2999(92)94825-G
中图分类号
R9 [药学];
学科分类号
1007 ;
摘要
It is shown that D-cycloserine has cognition-enhancing properties in quinolinic acid hippocampal-lesioned rats. Lesioned rats had a severe impairment of working memory in an allocentric spatial reversal paradigm in the 8-arm maze, and performance could be restored with 12 mg/kg i.p. D-cycloserine, given 30 min before testing. The present findings favour the testing of D-cycloserine for clinical efficacy in patients with Alzheimer's disease with loss of pyramidal neurons and disconnected glycine-NMDA receptor activation.
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