Abstract：
:The prenatal methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM) treatment has been proposed as a suitable model for the neurodevelopmental aspects of schizophrenia since the morphological abnormalities it induces in the brain are subtle and in line with most reports of neuropathology in schizophrenic brains. However, the functional aspects of this treatment have not been investigated with behavioural paradigms that are relevant for the psychopathology of the symptoms of schizophrenia. In the present study, we investigated the validity of the prenatal MAM treatment as a developmental model for schizophrenia with a prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex, latent inhibition, locomotor activity, and cognition and emotionality with freezing in fear conditioning paradigms. We have conducted two studies: in Study I, MAM was injected from E09 to E12, and in Study II MAM was administered at later stages in the embryonic development, from E12 to E15. Morphologically, the prenatal MAM treatment induced mild to severe reduction in brain weights and in the entorhinal cortex, prefrontal cortex and striatum volumes, the severity of the effects depending on the timing of administration. However, despite the morphological abnormalities induced by the MAM treatments, no behavioural deficits were observed in the MAM-treated animals when compared to Controls in prepulse inhibition, latent inhibition with the two-way active avoidance, and in the freezing paradigms. Therefore, due to the consistent lack of treatment effect observed in the present investigation, we conclude that the prenatal MAM treatment has no validity as a behavioural model for schizophrenia.
journal_name
Behav Brain Resjournal_title
Behavioural brain researchauthors
Jongen-Rêlo AL,Leng A,Lüber M,Pothuizen HH,Weber L,Feldon Jdoi
10.1016/s0166-4328(03)00228-6subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2004-03-02 00:00:00pages
159-81issue
2eissn
0166-4328issn
1872-7549pii
S0166-4328(03)00228-6journal_volume
149pub_type
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