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Provedor de dados: | 56
País: | Brazil
Título: | Long-term social recognition memory in adult male rats: factor analysis of the social and non-social behaviors
Autores: | Moura,P.J.; Meirelles,S.T.; Xavier,G.F.
Data: | 2010-07-01
Ano: | 2010
Palavras-chave: | Agonistic behavior; Long-term social recognition memory; Non-social behavior; Principal component analysis; Social behavior; Social investigation.
Resumo: | A modified version of the intruder-resident paradigm was used to investigate if social recognition memory lasts at least 24 h. One hundred and forty-six adult male Wistar rats were used. Independent groups of rats were exposed to an intruder for 0.083, 0.5, 2, 24, or 168 h and tested 24 h after the first encounter with the familiar or a different conspecific. Factor analysis was employed to identify associations between behaviors and treatments. Resident rats exhibited a 24-h social recognition memory, as indicated by a 3- to 5-fold decrease in social behaviors in the second encounter with the same conspecific compared to those observed for a different conspecific, when the duration of the first encounter was 2 h or longer. It was possible to distinguish between two different categories of social behaviors and their expression depended on the duration of the first encounter. Sniffing the anogenital area (49.9% of the social behaviors), sniffing the body (17.9%), sniffing the head (3%), and following the conspecific (3.1%), exhibited mostly by resident rats, characterized social investigation and revealed long-term social recognition memory. However, dominance (23.8%) and mild aggression (2.3%), exhibited by both resident and intruders, characterized social agonistic behaviors and were not affected by memory. Differently, sniffing the environment (76.8% of the non-social behaviors) and rearing (14.3%), both exhibited mostly by adult intruder rats, characterized non-social behaviors. Together, these results show that social recognition memory in rats may last at least 24 h after a 2-h or longer exposure to the conspecific.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2010000700009
Editor: | Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
Relação: | 10.1590/S0100-879X2010007500047
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research  v.43 n.7 2010
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess