title: [Genotype-dependent mice behavior in cognitive tasks. Effect of noopept].
abstract: The interstrain differences in performance of C57BL/6J, BALB/c and DBA/2J male mice in two cognitive tasks were found. Mice C57BL/6J showed good learning ability and preservation of memory traces tested 10 days after performance in a simplified version of Morris water maze. Mice BALB/c learned the task but, virtually, no long-term memory traces were revealed, whereas DBA/2J demonstrated poor learning. The effect of nootropic drug Noopept (GVS-111, N-phenil-acetyl-L-prolylglycin ethyl ether) was shown to be genotype-dependent. Its administration (0.5 mg/kg i.p., 15 min before learning) improved the long-term memory in Morris test in BALB/c mice but failed to produce any improvement in C57BL/6J. The ability of mice for extrapolation of the direction of stimulus movement differently changed after Noopept injections: the proportion of correct task solutions increased in C57BL/6J and BALB/c mice, whereas the performance of DBA/2J did not change.
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Bel'nik
authors.forename: R U
authors.initials: RU
authors.lastname: Ostrovskaia
authors.forename: I I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Poletaeva
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition / Q000187:drug effects*; D004151:Dipeptides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005838:Genotype; D008297:Male; D018782:Maze Learning / Q000187:drug effects*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008811:Mice, Inbred DBA; D018697:Nootropic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D004151:Dipeptides; D018697:Nootropic Agents; C103871:ethyl phenylacetyl-Pro-Gly