Phencyclidine prevents spatial navigation and passive avoidance deficits in ibotenate lesioned rats
- 30 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Neuropharmacology
- Vol. 33 (9), 1095-1101
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0028-3908(94)90148-1
Abstract
The potential neuroprotective effects of phencyclidine (5 mg/kg i.p.) were assessed in rats which had been treated with the excitotoxin, ibotenic acid (IBO) (0.015 M) to lesion the nucleus basalis magnocellularis. IBO treated rats showed a significant impairment in 13 of the 25 test trials in the spatial navigation Morris water maze task and deficits in passive avoidance learning. Phencyclidine was found to prevent the IBO-induced impairment in 4 of the 13 test trials in which the IBO Morris maze deficit was observed and also successfully prevented the passive avoidance learning deficits. Neurochemically, IBO was shown to reduce the levels of gamma amino-n-butyric acid (GABA) in the cortex. This effect of IBO on the inhibitory GABAergic system may contribute to the direct toxic effects of IBO which is mediated through excitatory amino acid receptors. Phencyclidine had no effect on the changes in GABA produced by IBO. The effect of phencyclidine treatment on IBO behavioural toxicity observed in this study demonstrates that antagonism of the phencyclidine receptor site on the receptor complex may be partially protective against the excitotoxic damage induced by IBO.
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