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BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 119, Issue 4, Pages 953-960Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.4.953
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learning; memory; basal ganglia; NMDA; glutamate
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- NINDS NIH HHS [NS043283] Funding Source: Medline
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The present study examined the effects of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) competitive antagonist, 2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid (AP-5), injected into the dorsolateral striatum on the acquisition and reversal learning of a response discrimination. Male Long-Evans rats were tested across 2 consecutive days in a modified cross-maze. An infusion of either saline or AP-5 (5 or 25 nM) occurred 5 min prior to testing. In acquisition rats learned to turn left or right. In reversal learning rats learned to turn in the opposite direction. An AP-5 infusion at 25 nmol, but not 5 nmol, impaired response acquisition. Neither AP-5 dose impaired response reversal learning. The results suggest that NMDA receptors in the dorsolateral striatum are critical for the initial learning of an egocentric response discrimination.
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