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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
28
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-7-14
pubmed:abstractText
Mice with alpha-mannosidase gene inactivation provide an experimental model for alpha-mannosidosis, a lysosomal storage disease with severe neuropsychological and psychopathological complications. Neurohistological alterations in these mice were similar to those in patients and included vacuolations and axonal spheroids in the CNS and peripheral nervous system. Vacuolation was most prominent and evenly distributed in neuronal perikarya of the hippocampal CA2 and CA3 regions, whereas CA1 and dentate gyrus were weakly or not affected. Field potential recordings from CA1 region in hippocampal slices showed enhanced theta burst-induced long-term potentiation (LTP) in alpha-mannosidase-deficient mice. Longitudinal assessment in age-matched alpha-mannosidase-deficient and wild-type littermates, using an extended test battery, demonstrated a neurocognitive and psychotiform profile that may relate to the psychopathological alterations in clinical alpha-mannosidosis. Brainstem auditory-evoked potentials and basic neuromotor abilities were not impaired and did not deteriorate with age. Exploratory and conflict tests revealed consistent decreases in exploratory activity and emotional blunting in the knock-out group. alpha-Mannosidosis mice were also impaired in aversively motivated learning and acquisition of signal-shock associations. Acquisition and reversal learning in the water maze task, passive avoidance learning in the step-through procedure, as well as emotional response conditioning in an operant procedure were all impaired. Acquisition or shaping of an appetitive instrumental conditioning task was unchanged. Appetitive odor discrimination learning was only marginally impaired during shaping, whereas both the discrimination and reversal subtasks were normal. We propose that prominent storage and enhanced LTP in hippocampus have contributed to these specific behavioral alterations in alpha-mannosidase-deficient mice.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1529-2401
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
13
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6539-49
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Appetitive Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Avoidance Learning, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Behavior, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Conditioning, Operant, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Discrimination (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Emotions, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Exploratory Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Hand Strength, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Learning Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Long-Term Potentiation, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Lysosomes, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Maze Learning, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Nervous System, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Psychomotor Performance, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Smell, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-Vacuoles, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-alpha-Mannosidase, pubmed-meshheading:16014715-alpha-Mannosidosis
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Neurocognitive and psychotiform behavioral alterations and enhanced hippocampal long-term potentiation in transgenic mice displaying neuropathological features of human alpha-mannosidosis.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Biological Psychology, University of Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. rudi.dhooge@psy.kuleuven.be
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't