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ArticleJournal of experimental neuroscience2015

Memory impairment and reduced exploratory behavior in mice after administration of systemic morphine.

Junichi Kitanaka, Nobue Kitanaka, F Scott Hall, Mei Fujii, Akiko Goto, Yusuke Kanda, Akira Koizumi, Hirotoshi Kuroiwa, Satoko Mibayashi, Yumi Muranishi and 6 more

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Article in Journal of experimental neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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16 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Junichi KitanakaDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Nobue KitanakaDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
F Scott HallDepartment of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA.
Mei FujiiDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Akiko GotoDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Yusuke KandaDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Akira KoizumiDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Hirotoshi KuroiwaDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Satoko MibayashiDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Yumi MuranishiDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Soichiro OtakiDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Minako SumikawaDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Koh-Ichi TanakaDivision of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Hyogo University of Health Sciences, Hyogo, Japan.
Nobuyoshi NishiyamaDivision of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Hyogo University of Health Sciences, Hyogo, Japan. ; The Office of the Dean, School of Pharmacy, Hyogo University of Health Sciences, Hyogo, Japan.
George R UhlMolecular Neurobiology Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse-Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Motohiko TakemuraDepartment of Pharmacology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Hyogo Medical University · JPHyogo University of Health Sciences · JPUniversity of Toledo · US

Funding

Genetic Approaches To Characterizing Drug Responses And Vulnerabilities: MiceZIADA000165 · NIDA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE · PI UHL, GEORGE RICHARD · 2009 to 2016
$7.9M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the present study, the effects of morphine were examined on tests of spatial memory, object exploration, locomotion, and anxiety in male ICR mice. Administration of morphine (15 or 30 mg/kg, intraperitoneally (i.p.)) induced a significant decrease in Y-maze alternations compared to saline vehicle-treated mice. The reduced Y-maze alternations induced by morphine were completely blocked by naloxone (15 mg/kg) or β-funaltrexamine (5 mg/kg) but not by norbinaltorphimine (5 mg/kg) or naltrindole (5 mg/kg), suggesting that the morphine-induced spatial memory impairment was mediated predominantly by μ-opioid receptors (MOPs). Significant spatial memory retrieval impairments were observed in the Morris water maze (MWM) in mice treated with morphine (15 mg/kg) or scopolamine (1 mg/kg), but not with naloxone or morphine plus naloxone. Reduced exploratory time was observed in mice after administration of morphine (15 mg/kg), in a novel-object exploration test, without any changes in locomotor activity. No anxiolytic-like behavior was observed in morphine-treated mice in the elevated plus maze. A significant reduction in buried marbles was observed in morphine-treated mice measured in the marble-burying test, which was blocked by naloxone. These observations suggest that morphine induces impairments in spatial short-term memory and retrieval, and reduces exploratory behavior, but that these effects are not because of overall changes in locomotion or anxiety.

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morphineMorris water mazespatial memoryY-maze taskμ-opioid receptor

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PMID25987850
PMCPMC4428380
OpenAlexW1905809862

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