Learning in the Place navigation task, not the New-learning task, is altered by prenatal methamphetamine exposure
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Romana Slamberová1, Marie Pometlová, Lýdia Syllabová
1Department of Normal, Pathological and Clinical Physiology, 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 4, 120 00 Praha 2, Prague, Czech Republic. rslamber@lf3.cuni.cz
Abstract:
Adult rats (prenatally methamphetamine-exposed, saline-exposed and controls) were tested for learning in the Morris water maze. Rats were tested in 4 consecutive days using two different types of learning tests: "Place navigation test" (stable platform position) and "New-learning test" (platform position changed daily). Males exposed prenatally to methamphetamine were slower in the Place navigation learning test than were both the control and saline-exposed males. There were no differences in the New-learning test between groups.

