NDLI: The effects of hyperammonemia in learning and brain metabolic activity

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Author	Arias, Natalia Fidalgo, Cami Felipo, Vicente Arias, Jorge L.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Ammonia is thought to be central in the development of hepatic encephalopathy. However, the specific relation of ammonia with brain energy depletions and learning has not been studied. Our work attempts to reproduce an increase in rat cerebral ammonia level, study the hyperamonemic animals’ performance of two learning tasks, an allocentric (ALLO) and a cue guided (CG) task, and elucidate the contribution of hyperammonemia to the differential energy requirements of the brain limbic system regions involved in these tasks. To assess these goals, four groups of animals were used: a control (CHA) CG group (n = 10), a CHA ALLO group (n = 9), a hyperammonemia (HA) CG group (n = 7), and HA ALLO group (n = 8). Oxidative metabolism of the target brain regions were assessed by histochemical labelling of cytochrome oxidase (C.O.). The behavioural results revealed that the hyperammonemic rats were not able to reach the behavioural criterion in either of the two tasks, in contrast to the CHA groups. The metabolic brain consumption revealed increased C.O. activity in the anterodorsal thalamus when comparing the HA ALLO group with the CHA ALLO group. Significant differences between animals trained in the CG task were observed in the prelimbic, infralimbic, parietal, entorhinal and perirhinal cortices, the anterolateral and anteromedial striatum, and the basolateral and central amygdala. Our findings may provide fresh insights to reveal how the differential damage to the brain limbic structures involved in these tasks differs according to the degree of task difficulty.
Starting Page	113
Ending Page	120
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	08857490
Journal	Metabolic Brain Disease
Volume Number	29
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737365
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-01-12
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Hepatic encephalopathy Hyperammonemia Rat Cytochrome c oxidase Allocentric task Cue guided task Neurosciences Neurology Metabolic Diseases Biochemistry Oncology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Biochemistry Neurology (clinical) Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

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