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BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 1814, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2023.148446
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Hippocampus; Phase precession; Schizophrenia; Maternal immune activation; Clozapine
Hippocampal phase precession, important for information sequencing in memory, is affected by maternal immune activation (MIA) in rats, a known risk factor for schizophrenia. This study investigated whether the antipsychotic clozapine, known to ameliorate cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, alters the variability of phase precession. The results showed that acute administration of clozapine did not affect phase precession but did reduce locomotion speed.
Hippocampal phase precession, wherein there is a systematic shift in the phase of neural firing against the underlying theta activity, is proposed to play an important role in the sequencing of information in memory. Previous research shows that the starting phase of precession is more variable in rats following maternal immune activation (MIA), a known risk factor for schizophrenia. Since starting phase variability has the potential to disorganize the construction of sequences of information, we tested whether the atypical antipsychotic clozapine, which ameliorates some cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, alters this aspect of phase precession. Either saline or clozapine (5 mg/kg) was administered to rats and then CA1 place cell activity was recorded from the CA1 region of the hippocampus as the animals ran around a rectangular track for food reward. When compared to saline trials, acute administration of clozapine did not affect any place cell properties, including those related to phase precession, in either control or MIA animals. Clozapine did, however, produce a reduction in locomotion speed, indicating that its presence had some effect on behaviour. These results help to constrain explanations of phase precession mechanisms and their potential role in sequence learning deficits.
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