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ArticleNeuroscience2017

Prenatal choline supplementation attenuates MK-801-induced deficits in memory, motor function, and hippocampal plasticity in adult male rats.

Chelsea A Nickerson, Alexandra L Brown, Waylin Yu, Yoona Chun, Melissa J Glenn

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Article in Neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chelsea A NickersonDepartment of Biology, Colby College, 5550 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME 04901, USA. Electronic address: chelsea_nickerson@mail.harvard.edu.
Alexandra L BrownDepartment of Psychology, Colby College, 5550 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME 04901, USA. Electronic address: abrown8692@gmail.com.
Waylin YuDepartment of Psychology, Colby College, 5550 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME 04901, USA. Electronic address: wayliny@gmail.com.
Yoona ChunDepartment of Biology, Colby College, 5550 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME 04901, USA. Electronic address: ychun@colby.edu.
Melissa J GlennDepartment of Psychology, Colby College, 5550 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME 04901, USA. Electronic address: mjglenn@colby.edu.
Colby College · US

Funding

The Maine Biomedical Research Network (INBRE)P20GM103423 · NIGMS · MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LAB · PI JAMES A COFFMAN · 2012 to 2026
$60.0M
WNT SIGNALING IN THE DEVELOPING GASTROINTESTINAL TRACTP20RR016463 · NCRR · MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LAB · PI HAND, PATRICIA H. · 2001 to 2011
$41.0M
NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR016463NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103423
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Choline is essential to the development and function of the central nervous system and supplemental choline during development is neuroprotective against a variety of insults, including neurotoxins like dizocilpine (MK-801). MK-801 is an NMDA receptor antagonist that is frequently used in rodent models of psychological disorders, particularly schizophrenia. At low doses, it causes cognitive impairments, and at higher doses it induces motor deficits, anhedonia, and neuronal degeneration. The primary goals of the present study were to investigate whether prenatal choline supplementation protects against the cognitive impairments, motor deficits, and neuropathologies that are precipitated by MK-801 administration in adulthood. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed a standard or supplemented choline diet prenatally. Using the novelty preference test of object recognition, we found that only prenatal standard-fed rats displayed memory consolidation deficits induced by low-dose MK-801 administered immediately following study of sample objects; all other groups, including prenatal choline supplemented rats given MK-801, showed intact memory. Following high-dose MK-801, prenatal choline supplementation significantly alleviated rats' motor response to MK-801, particularly ataxia. Using doublecortin and Ki67 to mark neurogenesis and cell division, respectively, in the hippocampus, we found that prenatal choline supplementation, in the face of MK-801 toxicity, protected against reduced hippocampal plasticity. Taken together, the current findings suggest that prenatal choline supplementation protects against a variety of behavioral and neural pathologies induced by the neurotoxin, MK-801. This research contributes to the growing body of evidence supporting the robust neuroprotective capacity of choline.

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AgingAnimalsCholineDizocilpine MaleateDoublecortin ProteinFemaleHippocampusMaleMemoryMemory DisordersMotor ActivityNeurotoxinsPregnancyPrenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsRats, Sprague-DawleyCholineDcx protein, ratDizocilpine MaleateDoublecortin ProteinNeurotoxinsadult neurogenesisdoublecortinKi67neuroprotectionnovelty preferencenutrition

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PMID28790020
PMCPMC5605469
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