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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-4-9
pubmed:abstractText
Previous studies have suggested that intracerebroventricular kainic acid injections alter brain anatomy and neurochemistry in a manner similar to what is observed in schizophrenic patients. Disturbances in sensory information processing are one of the major symptoms of schizophrenia. Thus, the present experiments were designed to evaluate the hypothesis that hippocampal damage, induced by administration of kainic acid, would alter the processing of auditory stimuli in a paired-click paradigm. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were implanted for surface recording of auditory evoked potentials. At the time of electrode implantation, the rats also received bilateral injections of either kainic acid or the vehicle solution. In vehicle-treated rats, the midlatency N40 component of the auditory evoked potential was diminished in amplitude by approximately 60% in response to the second of a pair of clicks delivered 0.5 s apart. By contrast, no reduction of the N40 wave evoked by the second click was observed in kainate-treated rats. Further, administration of haloperidol, a prototypical neuroleptic agent, did not improve this auditory processing dysfunction in kainate-treated animals. Loss of auditory filtering in the paired-click paradigm and a lack of response to haloperidol in this test are typically observed in schizophrenic humans. Thus, the present results demonstrate that kainate-lesioned rats possess a functional schizophrenia-like abnormality, further reinforcing the utility of this model system for studying the basic neurobiology of schizophrenia-induced sensory processing deficits.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0306-4522
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
82
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
701-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Acoustic Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Antipsychotic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Auditory Perception, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Electrodes, Implanted, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Electrophysiology, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Evoked Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Haloperidol, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Injections, Intraventricular, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Kainic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Schizophrenia, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Schizophrenic Psychology, pubmed-meshheading:9483529-Startle Reaction
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Kainic acid lesions in adult rats as a model of schizophrenia: changes in auditory information processing.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.