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Nesting and shredding behavior as an indicator of hippocampal ischemic damage
F J Antonawich1, C S Melton, P Wu
1Department of Neurology, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794-8121, USA. fantona@neuro.som.sunysb.edu
Brain Research
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
Mongolian gerbils were subjected to bilateral carotid artery occlusion, exposed to nesting material and examined daily. Five minutes of ischemia significantly reduced nesting behavior for 3 days; while 10 min attenuated nesting 6 days. Semi-novel re-exposure to nesting material also resulted in deficits. These disruptions in nesting behavior directly correlate to the amount of ischemic morphological damage and thus serve as a behavioral indicator of tissue damage.