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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2018

Longitudinal Performance of Senescence Accelerated Mouse Prone-Strain 8 (SAMP8) Mice in an Olfactory-Visual Water Maze Challenge.

Virginie Lam, Ryusuke Takechi, Matthew A Albrecht, Zachary John D'Alonzo, Liam Graneri, Mark J Hackett, Stephanie Coulson, Nicholas Fimognari, Michael Nesbit, John C L Mamo

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Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Virginie LamCurtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Ryusuke TakechiCurtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Matthew A AlbrechtCurtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Zachary John D'AlonzoCurtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Liam GraneriCurtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Mark J HackettCurtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Stephanie CoulsonCurtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Nicholas FimognariCurtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Michael NesbitCurtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
John C L MamoCurtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.

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Abstract

Morris water maze (MWM) is widely used to assess cognitive deficits in pre-clinical rodent models. Latency time to reach escape platform is frequently reported, but may be confounded by deficits in visual acuity, or differences in locomotor activity. This study compared performance of Senescence Accelerated Mouse Prone-Strain 8 (SAMP8) and control Senescence Accelerated Mouse Resistant-Strain 1 (SAMR1) mice in classical MWM, relative to performance in a newly developed olfactory-visual maze testing protocol. Performance indicated as the escape time to rescue platform for classical MWM testing showed that SAMP8 mice as young as 6 weeks of age did poorly relative to age-matched SAMR1 mice. The olfactory-visual maze challenge described better discriminated SAMP8 vs. SAMR1 mice than classical MWM testing, based on latency time measures. Consideration of the distance traveled rather than latency time in the classical MWM found no treatment effects between SAMP8 and SAMR1 at 40 weeks of age and the olfactory-visual measures of performance confirmed the classical MWM findings. Longitudinal (repeat) assessment of SAMP8 and SAMR1 performance at 6, 20, 30, and 40 weeks of age in the olfactory-visual testing protocol showed no age-associated deficits in SAMP8 mice to the last age end-point indicated. Collectively, the results from this study suggest the olfactory-visual testing protocol may be advantageous compared to classical MWM as it avoids potential confounders of visual impairment in some strains of mice and indeed, may offer insight into cognitive and behavioral deficits that develop with advanced age in the widely used SAMP8 murine model.

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cognitionmorris water mazemurine modelolfactory senseSAMP8 strain

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PMCPMC6121094

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