[Effect of dopamine enriched ganglion xenografts from the immature CNS of Helix aspersa L. snail on the learning time during acquisition of an operant food-procuring reflex in WAG/RIJ rats].
Xenografts from the ganglia of a newborn terrestrial snail Helix aspersa L. were implanted into the right parietal area of the brain cortex of WAG/Rij rats with absence epilepsy. Rats with implanted xenografts were trained for reaching a food ball from a tube (reaching test). It was shown that the mean duration of each leaning stage and total time necessary for acquisition of the instrumental conditioning (till the learning criterion) were shorter in animals with xenografts than in control groups of animals.
Vorob'ev
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Institute of Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Pletneva
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D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000523:psychology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D017952:Ganglia, Invertebrate / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000637:transplantation; D006372:Helix, Snails; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000601:surgery; D051381:Rats; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous
D004298:Dopamine