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NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 64, Issue 3, Pages 297-305Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2009.03.015
Keywords
Cognition; Emotion; Immune activation; Neonate; PolyI:C; Schizophrenia
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- Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Academic Frontier [19390062]
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It has been reported that viral infection in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy in humans increases the risk of subsequently developing schizophrenia. To develop a mouse model of immune activation during the early postnatal period, neonatal ICR mice were repeatedly injected with polyriboinosinic-polyribocytidilic acid (polyI:C: an inducer of strong innate immune responses) for 5 days (postnatal day 2-6) which may correspond, in terms of brain development, to the early second trimester in human. Cognitive and emotional behavior as well as the extracellular level of glutamate in the hippocampus were analyzed at the age of 10-12 weeks old. PolyI:C-treated mice showed anxiety-like behavior, impairment of object recognition memory and social behavior, and sensorimotor gating deficits, as compared to the saline-treated control group. Depolarization-evoked glutamate release in the hippocampus was impaired in polyI:C-treated mice compared to saline-treated control mice. Furthermore, to investigate the effect of neonatal immune activation on the expression levels of schizophrenia-related genes, we analyzed mRNA levels in the hippocampus 2 and 24 h after polyl:C treatment. No significant differences or only transient and marginal changes were observed between polyl:C-treated and saline-treated control mice in the expression levels of schizophrenia-related genes in the hippocampus. (c) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd and the Japan Neuroscience Society. All rights reserved.
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