Fluoxetine tunes the abnormal hippocampal oscillations in association with cognitive impairments in 6-OHDA lesioned rats.

Weitang Liu, Renxing Zhang, Hu Feng, Hongyan Zhu

Behavioural brain research 2021 Jul 09

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Cognitive decline is a common clinical symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Fluoxetine (FLU), a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, can improve cognitive deficits in demented patients. The present study investigated the effects of FLU on spatial learning and memory cognitions in 6-OHDA lesioned rats. Morris water maze (MWM) test showed that FLU significantly improved spatial cognitive deficits in rats with unilateral 6-OHDA injection at 4 and 7 weeks after 6-OHDA injection. Electrophysiological recordings demonstrated that the number and duration of high voltage spindles(HVSs)in the ipsilateral hippocampus of 6-OHDA lesioned rats were decreased by the administration of FLU. Furthermore, the spectral analysis of per frequency revealed increases in δ and θ rhythm power and decreases in α, β and γ rhythm power in the ipsilateral hippocampus of 6-OHDA lesioned rats in contrast to the saline-treated rats. Acute FLU treatment can reduce δ and θ rhythm power, and enhance α, β and γ rhythm power in the ipsilateral hippocampus of 6-OHDA lesioned rats. These findings suggest that FLU improves impaired cognition by tuning oscillatory activities in the hippocampus of 6-OHDA lesioned rats. Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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Weitang Liu, Renxing Zhang, Hu Feng, Hongyan Zhu. Fluoxetine tunes the abnormal hippocampal oscillations in association with cognitive impairments in 6-OHDA lesioned rats. Behavioural brain research. 2021 Jul 09;409:113314