REPEATED STRESS CAUSES REVERSIBLE IMPAIRMENTS OF SPATIAL MEMORY PERFORMANCE

被引:602
作者
LUINE, V [1 ]
VILLEGAS, M [1 ]
MARTINEZ, C [1 ]
MCEWEN, BS [1 ]
机构
[1] ROCKEFELLER UNIV,NEUROENDOCRINOL LAB,NEW YORK,NY 10021
关键词
SPATIAL MEMORY; RADIAL ARM MAZE; HIPPOCAMPUS; STRESS; TIANEPTINE; PHENYTOIN;
D O I
10.1016/0006-8993(94)91778-7
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Restraint stress, 6 h/day for 21 days, caused an impairment, during acquisition, of the performance of a spatial memory task, the eight-arm radial maze. The impairment was reversible, temporally limited and blocked by phenytoin, a blocker of excitatory amino acid action, or tianeptine, an antidepressant, which lowers extracellular serotonin. These effects on behavior parallel the reversible stress-induced atrophy of dendrites of hippocampal CA3 neurons that are also blocked by the drugs.
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页码:167 / 170
页数:4
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