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Gonadal hormones in female rats protect against dehydration-induced memory impairments in the novel object recognition paradigm.

Abstract：

:Dehydration impairs cognitive performance in humans and rodents, although studies in animal models are limited. Estrogens have both protective effects on fluid regulation and improve performance in certain cognitive tasks. We, therefore, tested whether sex and gonadal hormones influence object recognition memory during dehydration. Because past studies used fluid deprivation to induce dehydration, which is a mixture of intracellular and extracellular fluid loss, we tested the effects of osmotic (loss of intracellular fluid) and hypovolemic (loss of extracellular fluid) dehydration on object recognition memory. After training trials consisting of exposure to two identical objects, rats were either treated with hypertonic saline to induce osmotic dehydration, furosemide to induce hypovolemic dehydration, or received a control injection and then object recognition memory was tested by presenting the original and a novel object. After osmotic dehydration, regardless of group or treatment, all rats spent significantly more time investigating the novel object. After hypovolemic dehydration, regardless of treatment, both the males and estrous females spent significantly more time investigating the novel object. While the control-treated diestrous females also spent significantly more time investigating the novel object, the furosemide-treated diestrous females spent a similar amount of time investigating the novel and original object. Follow up studies determined that loss of ovarian hormones after ovariectomy, but not loss of testicular hormones after castration, resulted in impaired memory performance in the object recognition test after hypovolemic dehydration. This series of experiments provides evidence for a protective role of ovarian hormones on dehydration-induced memory impairments.

journal_name

Horm Behav

journal_title

Hormones and behavior

authors

Santollo J,Myers KE,Rainer IL,Edwards AA

doi

10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.06.011

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-08-01 00:00:00

pages

104547

eissn

0018-506X

issn

1095-6867

pii

S0018-506X(19)30101-1

journal_volume

114

pub_type

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Gonadal hormones in female rats protect against dehydration-induced memory impairments in the novel object recognition paradigm.