Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Temporary inhibition of dorsal or ventral hippocampus by muscimol: Distinct effects on measures of innate anxiety on the elevated plus maze, but similar disruption of contextual fear conditioning

Zhang, Wei-Ning; Bast, Tobias; Yan, Xu; Feldon, Joram

Temporary inhibition of dorsal or ventral hippocampus by muscimol: Distinct effects on measures of innate anxiety on the elevated plus maze, but similar disruption of contextual fear conditioning Thumbnail


Authors

Wei-Ning Zhang

TOBIAS BAST tobias.bast@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Xu Yan

Joram Feldon



Abstract

Studies in rats, involving hippocampal lesions and hippocampal drug infusions, have implicated the hippocampus in the modulation of anxiety-related behaviors and conditioned fear. The ventral hippocampus is considered to be more important for anxiety- and fear-related behaviors than the dorsal hippocampus. In the present study, we compared the role of dorsal and ventral hippocampus in innate anxiety and classical fear conditioning in Wistar rats, examining the effects of temporary pharmacological inhibition by the GABA-A agonist muscimol (0.5. ug/0.5. ul/side) in the elevated plus maze and on fear conditioning to a tone and the conditioning context. In the elevated plus maze, dorsal and ventral hippocampal muscimol caused distinct behavioral changes. The effects of ventral hippocampal muscimol were consistent with suppression of locomotion, possibly accompanied by anxiolytic effects, whereas the pattern of changes caused by dorsal hippocampal muscimol was consistent with anxiogenic effects. In contrast, dorsal and ventral hippocampal muscimol caused similar effects in the fear conditioning experiments, disrupting contextual, but not tone, fear conditioning. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.

Citation

Zhang, W., Bast, T., Yan, X., & Feldon, J. (2014). Temporary inhibition of dorsal or ventral hippocampus by muscimol: Distinct effects on measures of innate anxiety on the elevated plus maze, but similar disruption of contextual fear conditioning. Behavioural Brain Research, 262, 47-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2013.10.044

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 28, 2013
Online Publication Date Nov 6, 2013
Publication Date Apr 1, 2014
Deposit Date Jan 8, 2014
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Behavioural Brain Research
Print ISSN 0166-4328
Electronic ISSN 1872-7549
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 262
Pages 47-56
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2013.10.044
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/719716
Publisher URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432813006694
Additional Information NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Behavioural Brain Research. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version is published in Behavioural Brain Research, doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.10.044

Files





You might also like



Downloadable Citations