Chronic administration of risperidone in a rat model of schizophrenia: A behavioural, morphological and molecular study
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In the present work we analyzed the effect of the chronic administration of risperidone (2mg/kg over 65 days) on behavioural, morphological and molecular aspects in an experimental model of schizophrenia obtained by bilateral injection of ibotenic acid into the ventral hippocampus of new-born rats. Our results show that during their adult lives the animals with hippocampal lesions exhibit different alterations, mainly at behavioural level and in the gene expression of dopamine D2 and 5-HT2A receptors. However, at morphological level the study performed on the prefrontal cortex did not reveal any alterations in either the thickness or the number of cells immunoreactive for c-Fos, GFAP, CBP or PV. Overall, risperidone administration elicited a trend towards the recovery of the values previously altered by the hippocampal lesion, approaching the values seen in the animals without lesions. It may be concluded that the administration of risperidone in the schizophrenia model employed helps to improve the altered functions, with no significant negative effects. © 2013.
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5-HT receptor Antipsychotic drugs Behaviour DA receptor Immunohistochemistry Prefrontal cortex Risperidone Schizophrenia calbindin dopamine 2 receptor glial fibrillary acidic protein ibotenic acid parvalbumin protein c fos risperidone serotonin 2A receptor adult animal animal behavior animal experiment animal model animal tissue brain damage cell count chronic drug administration controlled study cortical thickness (brain) disease model gene expression hippocampus immunoreactivity newborn nonhuman nucleotide sequence prefrontal cortex priority journal rat schizophrenia Age Factors Animals Animals, Newborn Antipsychotic Agents Avoidance Learning Behavior, Animal Brain Cell Count CREB-Binding Protein Disease Models, Animal Drug Administration Schedule Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists Exploratory Behavior Female Gene Expression Regulation Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Grooming Hippocampus Ibotenic Acid Male Parvalbumins Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos Rats Rats, Wistar Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT2A Receptors, Dopamine D2
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Behavioural Brain Research, v. 242, n. 1, p. 178-190, 2013.
