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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
卷 560, 期 1, 页码 36-41出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2007.01.011
关键词
arginine vasopressin; learning; memory; passive avoidance; arachidonic acid; NC-1900; cyclooxygenase
In this study, we investigated the effect of administration of inhibitors of each of the arachidonic acid metabolism pathways and the effect of co-administration of these inhibitors with NC-1900, a fragment analog of arginine vasopressin, on step-through passive avoidance task performance. All drugs were administered just after the acquisition trial in the passive avoidance task. Intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) administration of nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA, 1 and 10 mu g), a phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) and lipoxygenase (LOX) inhibitor, and of arachidonyl trifluoromethyl ketone (ATK, 1 and 10 mu g), a specific PLA(2) inhibitor caused reductions in latency on the retention trial. The i.c.v. administration of either of baicalein (0.1-10 mu g), a 12-LOX inhibitor, or AA-861 (0.1-10 mu g), a 5-LOX inhibitor, did not influence the latency. Intraperitoneal administration of indomethacin (20 mg/kg), a non-specific COX inhibitor, or NS-398 (10 mg/kg), a specific COX-2 inhibitor, impaired performance on the retention trial in the task, while piroxicam (20 mg/kg), a specific COX-1 inhibitor, did not. Subcutaneous administration of NC-1900 (0.1 ng/kg) ameliorated the reduction of latency caused by NDGA, ATK, indomethacin, or NS-398. These results suggested that the COX-2 pathway of arachidonic acid metabolism may be important for learning and/or memory in the passive avoidance task in mice, and that the ameliorating effect of NC-1900, in part, is due to mimicking of the effects of metabolites of the COX-2 pathway. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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