Chronic phosphatidylserine treatment improves spatial memory and passive avoidance in aged rats
Chronic phosphatidylserine treatment improves spatial memory and passive avoidance in aged rats
复制标题
慢性磷脂酰丝氨酸治疗可改善老年大鼠的空间记忆和被动回避
作者:
A. Zanotti;L. Valzelli;G. Toffano
Learning/memory deficits in senescent animals are widely used as a tool to evaluate the therapeutic potential of agents for treatment of age-associated cognitive dysfunction. As assessed in the Morris water maze test, aged (21–24 months) rats showed a variable loss of spatial memory. Aged non-impaired rats performed as well as young subjects, while aged impaired rats exhibited a severe and persistent place-navigation, deficit. Passive avoidance retention was similarly affected in the two aged subpopulations. Chronic oral administration of phosphatidylserine (50 mg/kg/day for up to 12 weeks), a pharmacologically active phospholipid, was found to improve both the spatial memory and the passive avoidance retention of aged impaired rats. Results are discussed with reference to the phosphatidylserine-induced improvement of age-associated deterioration of brain functions in rats.
DOI:
10.1016/s0163-1047(82)90234-5
发表时间:
1982
期刊:
Behavioral and neural biology
影响因子:
--
作者:
Zornetzer,SF;Thompson,R;Rogers,J
通讯作者:
Rogers,J
影响因子:
1.9
作者:
Rapp,PR;Rosenberg,RA;Gallagher,M
通讯作者:
Gallagher,M