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タイトル
  • en Assessment of impulsivity in adolescent mice : A new training procedure for a 3-choice serial reaction time task
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アクセス権 open access
権利情報
主題
  • Other en Development
  • Other en C57BL/6N
  • Other en Behavioral inhibition
  • Other en Executive function
  • NDC 490
内容注記
  • Abstract en Immaturity in impulse control among adolescents could result in substance abuse, criminal involvement, and suicide. The brains of adolescents and adults are anatomically, neurophysiologically, and pharmacologically different. Therefore, preclinical models of adolescent impulsivity are required to screen drugs for adolescents and elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying age-related differences in impulsivity. The conventional 3- or 5-choice serial reaction time task, which is a widely used task to assess impulsivity in adult rodents, cannot be used for young mice because of two technical problems: impaired growth caused by food restriction and the very long training duration. To overcome these problems, we altered the conventional training process, optimizing the degree of food restriction for young animals and shortening the training duration. We found that almost all basal performance levels were similar between the novel and conventional procedures. We also confirmed the pharmacological validity of our results: the 5-hydroxytryptamine 2C (5-HT2C) receptor agonist Ro60-0175 (0.6 mg/kg, subcutaneous) reduced the occurrence of premature responses, whereas the 5-HT2C receptor antagonist SB242084 (0.5 mg/kg intraperitoneal) increased their occurrence, consistent with results of previous studies using conventional procedures. Furthermore, we detected age-related differences in impulsivity using the novel procedure: adolescent mice were found to be more impulsive than adult mice, congruent with the results of human studies. Thus, the new procedure enables the assessment of impulsivity in adolescent mice and facilitates a better understanding of the neurophysiological/pharmacological properties of adolescents.
出版者 en Elsevier
日付
    Issued2018-05-02
言語
  • eng
資源タイプ journal article
出版タイプ VoR
資源識別子 HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/70904
関連
  • isIdenticalTo DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.01.014
  • requires HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/70905
  • PMID 29355672
収録誌情報
    • PISSN 0166-4328
      • en Behavioural brain research
      • 343 開始ページ61 終了ページ70
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