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Assessing Activity-based Anorexia in Mice
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快速,自动化和无实验者的触摸屏测试揭示了雌性大鼠的认知灵活性和基于活动的厌食症之间的相互相互作用
Kaixin Huang1,2, Laura K Milton1,2, Harry Dempsey1
1Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.
eLife
|June 30, 2023
概括
认知不灵活并不预测神经性厌食症的易感性. 相反,基于活动的厌食症 (ABA) 损害了认知灵活性,而先前的逆向学习培训可以防止ABA诱导的体重减轻.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 动物行为 动物行为
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
背景情况:
- 神经性厌食症 (AN) 是一种严重的精神疾病,死亡率高.
- 认知不灵活是AN的标志,即使体重恢复后也会持续下去.
- 认知不灵活性和AN易感性之间的关系尚未完全理解.
研究的目的:
- 开发和验证一个自动化的触摸屏系统用于大鼠的认知测试.
- 调查认知灵活性和基于活动的厌食症 (ABA) 之间的相互关系.
- 为了确定认知不灵活性是否使大鼠倾向于ABA诱导的病理性体重减轻.
主要方法:
- 开发了一种完全自动化的,无实验者的触摸屏系统,用于大鼠认知测试.
- 利用逆向学习任务来评估认知灵活性.
- 研究了ABA暴露和恢复对认知灵活性的影响.
- 采用机器学习来识别ABA易感性的行为预测因素.
主要成果:
- 自动化系统显著减少了测试时间,并增加了吞吐量.
- 认知不灵活性并没有使老鼠易受ABA诱导的体重减轻;学习速度更快的老鼠更容易受到影响.
- 在重量恢复后的老鼠中,ABA暴露损害了逆转学习表现.
- 进行逆向学习的预先训练保护了老鼠免受ABA诱导的体重减轻.
- 机器学习在ABA敏感和耐药大鼠之间发现了稳定的行为差异.
结论:
- 在ABA模型中,认知不灵活性是病理性减肥的后果,而不是预测因素.
- 认知灵活性培训可以提供一种保护作用,防止发展AN表型.
- 自动化系统为研究AN和测试新药疗法提供了强大的工具.
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