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ArticleEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2018

Effects of neonatal excitotoxic lesions in ventral thalamus on social interaction in the rat.

Rainer Wolf, Henrik Dobrowolny, Sven Nullmeier, Bernhard Bogerts, Herbert Schwegler

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Article in European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Rainer WolfDepartment of Psychiatry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Alexandrinenstr. 1, 44791, Bochum, Germany. rainer.wolf@rub.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1080-7871
Henrik DobrowolnyDepartment of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Sven NullmeierInstitute of Anatomy, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Bernhard BogertsDepartment of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Herbert SchweglerInstitute of Anatomy, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg · DEUniversity Hospitals of the Ruhr-University of Bochum · DE

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BMBF 01ZZ0407
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of the thalamus in schizophrenia has increasingly been studied in recent years. Deficits in the ventral thalamus have been described in only few postmortem and neuroimaging studies. We utilised our previously introduced neurodevelopmental animal model, the neonatal excitotoxic lesion of the ventral thalamus of Sprague-Dawley rats (Wolf et al., Pharmacopsychiatry 43:99-109, 22). At postnatal day (PD7), male pubs received bilateral thalamic infusions with ibotenic acid (IBA) or artificial cerebrospinal fluid (control). In adulthood, social interaction of two animals not familiar to each other was studied by a computerised video tracking system. This study displays clear lesion effects on social interaction of adult male rats. The significant reduction of total contact time and the significant increase in distance between the animals in the IBA group compared to controls can be interpreted as social withdrawal modelling a negative symptom of schizophrenia. The significant increase of total distance travelled in the IBA group can be hypothesised as agitation modelling a positive symptom of schizophrenia. Using a triple concept of social interaction, the percentage of no social interaction (Non-SI%) was significantly larger, and inversely, the percentage of passive social interaction (SI-passive%) was significantly smaller in the IBA group when compared to controls. In conclusion, on the background of findings in schizophrenic patients, the effects of neonatal ventral thalamic IBA lesions in adult male rats support the hypothesis of face and construct validity as animal model of schizophrenia.

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Social BehaviorAnimalsAnimals, NewbornBehavior, AnimalExcitatory Amino Acid AgonistsIbotenic AcidMaleMotor ActivityRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyVentral Thalamic NucleiExcitatory Amino Acid AgonistsIbotenic AcidIbotenic acidRatSchizophreniaSocial interactionVentral thalamusVideo tracking

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