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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-3-7
pubmed:abstractText
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of prenatal lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment, which is an animal developmental model of schizophrenia, on MK-801-induced psychotomimetic behavioral changes and brain aminergic system activity in adult offspring. Repeated LPS (1 mg/kg) injection in rats, that had started from 7th day of pregnancy and was continued every second day till delivery, resulted in a long-lasting disruption of prepulse inhibition (PPI) and elevation of locomotor activity in their offspring. The prenatally LPS-treated rats showed hypersensitivity to MK-801 (0.1 and 0.4 mg/kg) as evidenced by the enhancement of acoustic startle amplitude, reduced PPI, and enhanced locomotor activity. These behavioral changes were accompanied by a decrease in the dopamine and its metabolite, DOPAC concentration in the frontal cortex, enhanced dopaminergic system activity in the striatum and no changes in noradrenaline (NA) level. Furthermore, the significant augmentation of 5-HT and 5-HIAA content in the frontal cortex of females only was detected. No changes in the cortical NA tissue level were found. Summing up, the present study demonstrated that the activation of the immune system in prenatal period led to persistent behavioral hypersensitivity to psychotomimetic action of a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist, and attention/information processing deficits. The foregoing data indicate that prenatal administration of LPS model some of the clinical aspects of schizophrenia and these behavioral effects are connected with neurochemical changes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1873-5177
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
98
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
241-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Behavior, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Dizocilpine Maleate, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Dopamine, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Drug Synergism, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Female, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Hallucinogens, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Lipopolysaccharides, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Male, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Motor Activity, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Norepinephrine, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Schizophrenia, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Sensory Gating, pubmed-meshheading:21236292-Serotonin
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Prenatal lipopolysaccharide treatment enhances MK-801-induced psychotomimetic effects in rats.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Experimental Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sm?tna 12, PL 31-343 Kraków, Poland. basta@if-pan.krakow.pl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article