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- Title
Improvement of spatial cognition with dietary docosahexaenoic acid is associated with an increase in Fos expression in rat CA1 hippocampus.
- Authors
Tanabe, Yoko; Hashimoto, Michio; Sugioka, Kozo; Maruyama, Megumi; Fujii, Yoshimi; Hagiwara, Rika; Hara, Toshiko; Hossain, Shahdat Md; Shido, Osamu
- Abstract
1. Twenty 5-week-old male Wistar rats were divided into two groups: one group was fed a fish oil-deficient diet and the other group was fed the same diet supplemented with per orally administered docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) for 12 weeks.2. Six weeks after the start of the administration of DHA, rats were trained for 6 weeks to acquire a reward at the end of each of four arms of an eight-arm radial maze. On completion of the radial maze task, the Fos expression in the hippocampus was examined immunohistochemically.3. Chronic DHA administration significantly reduced the number of reference and working memory errors. The number of Fos-positive neurons in the CA1 hippocampus significantly increased in DHA-treated rats compared with control rats, demonstrating a statistically significant negative correlation with the number of reference memory errors.4. These results suggest that the DHA-induced improvement in spatial cognition is associated with increased Fos expression in the CA1 hippocampus.
- Subjects
HIPPOCAMPUS (Brain); SPATIAL ability; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC acid; LABORATORY rats; OMEGA-3 fatty acids; CEREBRAL cortex
- Publication
Clinical & Experimental Pharmacology & Physiology, 2004, Vol 31, Issue 10, p700
- ISSN
0305-1870
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1440-1681.2004.04068.x