1. Research Paper: Cross State-dependent Learning Interaction Between Scopolamine and Morphine in Mice: The Role of Dorsal Hippocampus
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Morteza Maleki, Majid Navaeian, and Majid Hassanpour-Ezatti
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0301 basic medicine ,education ,Scopolamine ,Amnesia ,Dependency ,Pharmacology ,Hippocampal formation ,lcsh:RC321-571 ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Mice ,0302 clinical medicine ,Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor ,medicine ,CA1 region ,Hippocampal ,Receptor ,lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,Clinical neuroscience ,Morphine ,030104 developmental biology ,Opioid ,Neurology (clinical) ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Introduction: The current study aimed at investigating the existence of the cross state-dependent learning between morphine and scopolamine (SCO) in mice by passive avoidance method, pointing to the role of CA1 area. Methods: The effects of pre-training SCO (0.75, 1.5, and 3 μg, Intra-CA1), or morphine (1, 3, and 6 mg/kg, intraperitoneal (i.p.) was evaluated on the retrieval of passive avoidance learning using step-down task in mice (n=10). Then, the effect of pretest administration of morphine (1.5, 3, and 6 mg/kg, i.p.) was examined on passive avoidance retrieval impairment induced by pre-training SCO (3 μg/mice, Intra-CA1). Next, the effect of pretest Intra-CA1 injection of scopolamine (0.75, 1.5, and 3 μg/mice) was evaluated on morphine (6 mg/kg, i.p.) pre-training deficits in this task in mice. Results: The pre-training Intra-CA1 injection of scopolamine (1.5 and 3 μg/mouse), or morphine (3 and 6 mg/kg, i.p.) impaired the avoidance memory retrieval when it was tested 24 hours later. Pretest injection of both drugs improved its pre-training impairing effects on mice memory. Moreover, the amnesia induced by the pre-training injections of scopolamine (3 μg/mice) was restored significantly (P
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- 2017