期刊
PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
卷 95, 期 1-2, 页码 125-129出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.05.008
关键词
interferon-alpha; forced exercise; object learning; hippocampus; cytokine
资金
- Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI) of the Higher Education Authority, Ireland
The anti-viral drug interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) is widely-known to induce psychiatric and cognitive effects in patients. Previous work has shown that physical exercise can have a positive effect against brain insult. We investigated the effects of a clinically-comparable treatment regime of IFN-alpha on cognitive function in male Wistar rats and assessed the impact of chronic treadmill running on the deficits generated by IFN-alpha. We found that IFN-alpha induced significant impairments in performance on both spatial novelty and object novelty recognition. Chronic forced exercise did not protect against IFN-alpha-induced learning deficits in reactivity to spatial change, but did restore the capacity for novel object recognition in IFN-alpha-treated animals. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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