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ArticleBehavioural brain research2019

The attention set-shifting test is sensitive for revealing sex-based impairments in executive functions following developmental lead exposure in rats.

Lorenz S Neuwirth, Sidrah Masood, David W Anderson, Jay S Schneider

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Influence ofInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  7. In Vivo Sex-Dependent Effects of Perinatal PbAdvances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022
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4 authors.

Lorenz S NeuwirthDepartment of Psychology, SUNY Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY 11568, United States; SUNY Neuroscience Research Institute, SUNY Old Westbury, Old Westbury NY 11568, United States; Department of Pathology, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States. Electronic address: NeuwirthL@OldWestbury.edu.
Sidrah MasoodDepartment of Psychology, SUNY Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY 11568, United States; SUNY Neuroscience Research Institute, SUNY Old Westbury, Old Westbury NY 11568, United States.
David W AndersonDepartment of Pathology, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States.
Jay S SchneiderDepartment of Pathology, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States.

Funding

Environment and Gene Effects on Brain and BehaviorR01ES015295 · NIEHS · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI SCHNEIDER, JAY S · 2008 to 2017
$5.1M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES015295
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The literature on lead (Pb) exposure has focused in large part on hippocampal-based learning and memory deficits, although frontoexecutive dysfunctions are known to exist in Pb-exposed humans. This study examined the effects of perinatal (PERI) and early postnatal (EPN) developmental low-level Pb-exposures in rats on frontoexecutive functions, using the Attention Set-Shift Test (ASST). Control males and females performed the ASST similarly. Male EPN rats had difficulty with simple discrimination (SD) of odors and failed to complete the compound discrimination (CD) stage of the ASST. All other Pb-exposed rats completed the training and testing. Male PERI rats performed worse on the SD, intradimensional (ID), and intradimensional-reversal (ID-Rev) ASST stages when compared to male Control rats. Female EPN rats performed similar to Controls on the ID-Rev rats, whereas PERI rats performed better the trials-to-criterion on the ID-Rev than EPN and Control rats. Pb-exposed female rats had significant difficulty performing the ED/ED-Rev stages, with the number of trials-to-criterion double that required by Pb-exposed and Control male rats and Control female rats. Together, the ASST results showed that developmental Pb-exposure induces frontoexecutive dysfunction that persists into adulthood, with different sex-based vulnerabilities dependent upon the time-period of neurotoxicant exposure.

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AnimalsAttentionDisease Models, AnimalExecutive FunctionFemaleHippocampusLeadLead PoisoningMaleMemory DisordersRatsRats, Long-EvansSex FactorsLeadAttention set-shifting testCognitive flexibilityDevelopmental lead exposureDimensional shiftsDysexecutive functionsFrontoexecutive functions

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PMID30878351
PMCPMC6732195

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