title: Guanosine impairs inhibitory avoidance performance in rats.
abstract: The nucleoside guanosine, previously found to exert trophic and neuroprotective effects, was found to impair retention of inhibitory avoidance responses, with a complete effect at 7.5 mg/kg i.p. pretraining. Treated animals, when retrained 1 week later, showed normal learning ability. Guanosine injected immediately after training or pretest did not alter retention latency. Combined pretraining and pretest treatments with guanosine failed to reverse its amnestic effect, excluding the contribution of state dependency. Open field parameters and shock sensitivity were mostly unaltered by guanosine. These results suggest an amnestic effect of guanosine on inhibitory avoidance in rats, in a pattern compatible with inhibition of glutamatergic activity. However, the mechanism for the amnestic effect of guanosine is yet to be elucidated.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Memória, ICBS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Roesler
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Vianna
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Lara
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Izquierdo
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: D O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Souza
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D018691:Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D018698:Glutamic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D006151:Guanosine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D017470:Receptors, Glutamate / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D018691:Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists; D017470:Receptors, Glutamate; D006151:Guanosine; D018698:Glutamic Acid