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Int J Neuropsychopharmacol ; 24(6): 519-531, 2021 07 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33631001

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Memantine, a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, has been approved for use in Alzheimer's disease, but an increasing number of studies have investigated its utility for neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, we characterized a novel compound, fluoroethylnormemtantine (FENM), which was derived from memantine with an extra Fluor in an optimized position for in vivo biomarker labeling. We sought to determine if FENM produced similar behavioral effects as memantine and/or if FENM has beneficial effects against fear, avoidance, and behavioral despair. METHODS: We administered saline, FENM, or memantine prior to a number of behavioral assays, including paired-pulse inhibition, open field, light dark test, forced swim test, and cued fear conditioning in male Wistar rats. RESULTS: Unlike memantine, FENM did not produce nonspecific side effects and did not alter sensorimotor gating or locomotion. FENM decreased immobility in the forced swim test. Moreover, FENM robustly facilitated fear extinction learning when administered prior to either cued fear conditioning training or tone reexposure. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that FENM is a promising, novel compound that robustly reduces fear behavior and may be useful for further preclinical testing.


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Behavior, Animal/physiology , Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/pharmacology , Extinction, Psychological/drug effects , Fear/drug effects , Memantine/analogs & derivatives , Memantine/pharmacology , Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/antagonists & inhibitors , Animals , Male , Rats, Wistar
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Learn Mem ; 23(12): 684-688, 2016 12.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27918272

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Rodents are exquisitely sensitive to light and optogenetic behavioral experiments routinely introduce light-delivery materials into experimental situations, which raises the possibility that light could leak and influence behavioral performance. We examined whether rats respond to a faint diffusion of light, termed caplight, which emanated through the translucent dental acrylic resin used to affix deep-brain optical cannulas in place. Although rats did not display significant changes in locomotion or rearing to caplight in a darkened open field, they did acquire conditional fear via caplight-footshock pairings. These findings highlight the potential confounding influence of extraneous light emanating from light-delivery materials during optogenetic analyses.


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Acrylic Resins , Catheters, Indwelling , Fear , Light , Optical Fibers , Optogenetics/instrumentation , Animals , Conditioning, Classical , Electroshock , Freezing Reaction, Cataleptic , Light/adverse effects , Male , Motor Activity , Rats, Long-Evans , Signal Detection, Psychological
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