title: Genotype-dependent characteristics of behavior in mice in cognitive tests. The effects of Noopept.
abstract: Male C57BL/6J, BALB/c, and DBA/2J mice showed differences in their abilities to perform two cognitive tests. C57BL/6J mice had good learning ability and memory trace retention (at 10 days) in a simplified Morris maze, while BALB/c mice had low levels of memory trace retention and DBA/2J mice had low learning ability in this test. I.p. administration of the nootropic agent Noopept (GVS-111, N-phenylacetyl-L-prolylglycine ethyl ester) at a dose of 0.5 mg/kg 15 min before the start of the test induced significant improvements in long-term memory in this test in BALB/c mice but no further improvement in C57BL/6J mice, and had no effect in DBA/2J mice. On testing the ability to extrapolate the direction of movement of a stimulus, administration of Noopept increased the proportion of correct responses in C57BL/6J and BALB/c mice, but had no effect in DBA/2J mice.
authors.affiliation: State V. V. Zakusov Research Institute of Pharmacology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Bel'nik
authors.forename: R U
authors.initials: RU
authors.lastname: Ostrovskaya
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