Single-Trial Passive Avoidance Learning by Rats Treated with Ionized Air

1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1323-1330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Francois Lambert ◽  
Jean-Michel Olivereau

This research investigates the effect of positive and negative air ionization on the memorization of a single-trial passive avoidance response. The subjects were 20 male albino rats. They were randomly assigned to one of the three environmental conditions, that is, positive, negative, and no ionization. Memorization was tested by the improved single-trial inhibitory avoidance step-through task. The results indicate that positive air ionization impairs short- and long-term memory. The effects of negative air ionization are more complicated; a probably favourable effect on memory of inhibitory avoidance response, may be masked by a simultaneous increase of spontaneous activity.

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1071-1074 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Falkenberg ◽  
Roger E. Kirk

This research investigated the effects of positive and negative air ionization on the early acquisition of a Sidman (1953) avoidance response. The subjects were 20 male albino rats of the Sprague-Dawley strain. They were randomly assigned to ionization conditions and given 4 2-hr. acquisition sessions. The temporal parameters of the task were a response-shock interval of 20 sec. and a shock-shock interval of 5 sec. Shocks were delivered as 1-ma. pulses of 1 sec. duration. The results indicated that at the end of 4 2-hr. sessions the avoidance performance of rats trained in the presence of negative air ions was superior to that of rats trained in the presence of positive air ions.


1971 ◽  
Vol 74 (1, Pt.1) ◽  
pp. 75-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candace J. Schulenburg ◽  
David C. Riccio ◽  
Edna R. Stikes

Author(s):  
A. V. Shvetsov ◽  
A. I. Vaido ◽  
N. A. Dyuzhikova ◽  
A. V. Belskaya ◽  
M. V. Mikhailova ◽  
...  

A study of the dynamics of preservation of the conditioned reflex of passive avoidance (passive avoidance response) in rats of two lines with different level of excitability of the nervous system was performed: with a high and low thresholds of excitability as normal and after exposure to sodium thiopental semi-lethal dose. It was shown that a long preservation of the memorable trace under standard conditions and a higher sensitivity to the sodium thiopental action manifest in rats with a high excitability threshold in comparison with low-excitable line of rats.


2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 215-220
Author(s):  
A. N. Inozemtsev ◽  
D. S. Berezhnoy ◽  
A. V. Novoseletskaya

Author(s):  
Amberkar Vittal Rao Mohanbabu ◽  
Meena Kumari Kamal Kishore ◽  
Bangalore Revanna Chandrashekar ◽  
Hoskeri Dakappa Pradeepa ◽  
Rockson Christopher ◽  
...  

AbstractThe goal of this study was to evaluate the cerebroprotective and cognition-enhancing activities of the aqueousReference or working memory and long-term memory in rodents were tested by experimental paradigms like passive avoidance (PA) and T-maze (TM), respectively. TM and Morris water maze (MWM) were used to screen putative spatial or localization task and the navigation memory-enhancing activities ofThe higher dose (20 mg/kg) of plant extract exhibited significant (p<0.01) antiamnesic activity in the PA and TM models vs. the control. In the MWM test, at probe trial,These results partly substantiate the traditional use of


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