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ArticleFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2016

Repeated Blockade of NMDA Receptors During Adolescence Impairs Reversal Learning and Disrupts GABAergic Interneurons in Rat Medial Prefrontal Cortex.

Ji-Tao Li, Yun-Ai Su, Hong-Li Wang, Ying-Ying Zhao, Xue-Mei Liao, Xiao-Dong Wang, Tian-Mei Si

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Article in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Ji-Tao LiNational Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, (Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of Mental Health) and the Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University) Beijing, China.
Yun-Ai SuNational Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, (Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of Mental Health) and the Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University) Beijing, China.
Hong-Li WangNational Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, (Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of Mental Health) and the Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University) Beijing, China.
Ying-Ying ZhaoDepression Treatment Center, Beijing Anding Hospital of Capital Medical University Beijing, China.
Xue-Mei LiaoNational Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, (Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of Mental Health) and the Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University) Beijing, China.
Xiao-Dong WangDepartment of Neurobiology, Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology of Ministry of Health of China, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine Hangzhou, China.
Tian-Mei SiNational Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, (Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of Mental Health) and the Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University) Beijing, China.
Peking University · CNPeking University Sixth Hospital · CNCapital Medical University · CNZhejiang University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adolescence is of particular significance to schizophrenia, since psychosis onset typically occurs in this critical period. Based on the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor hypofunction hypothesis of schizophrenia, in this study, we investigated whether and how repeated NMDA receptor blockade during adolescence would affect GABAergic interneurons in rat medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and mPFC-mediated cognitive functions. Specifically, adolescent rats were subjected to intraperitoneal administration of MK-801 (0.1, 0.2, 0.4 mg/kg), a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist, for 14 days and then tested for reference memory and reversal learning in the water maze. The density of parvabumin (PV)-, calbindin (CB)- and calretinin (CR)-positive neurons in mPFC was analyzed at either 24 h or 7 days after drug cessation. We found that MK-801 treatment delayed reversal learning in the water maze without affecting initial acquisition. Strikingly, MK-801 treatment also significantly reduced the density of PV(+) and CB(+) neurons, and this effect persisted for 7 days after drug cessation at the dose of 0.2 mg/kg. We further demonstrated that the reduction in PV(+) and CB(+) neuron densities was ascribed to a downregulation of the expression levels of PV and CB, but not to neuronal death. These results parallel the behavioral and neuropathological changes of schizophrenia and provide evidence that adolescent NMDA receptors antagonism offers a useful tool for unraveling the etiology of the disease.

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