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BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY
卷 24, 期 6, 页码 903-907出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2010.02.004
关键词
Cognition; Learning and memory; Cancer; BDNF; Cytokines; IL-1 beta; Hippocampus; Tumor
资金
- American Cancer Society fellowship [PF-08-086-TBE]
- NIH [AI-67406]
- Brain Research Foundation
Cancer, in addition to many other chronic diseases, is associated with serious and problematic behavioral symptoms, including cognitive impairments. In humans, various factors likely contribute to cancer-associated cognitive deficits including disease awareness and chemotherapy; however, the endogenous biological factors arising from tumor development may also play a causal role. In the present study, rats with mammary tumors exhibited impaired spatial reference memory on a radial arm maze and amnesia for familiar objects in an object recognition memory test. In contrast, their performance in the Morris water maze and in fear conditioning tests was comparable to that of controls. These select cognitive impairments were accompanied by elevations in hippocampal interleukin-1 beta mRNA expression, but were not associated with decreases in hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene expression. Together the results indicate that peripheral tumors alone are sufficient to induce increases in hippocampal cytokine expression and select deficits in hippocampal-dependent memory tasks. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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