TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-Term Cognitive Deficits After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Rats
AU - Sasaki, Toshihiro
AU - Hoffmann, Ulrike
AU - Kobayashi, Motomu
AU - Sheng, Huaxin
AU - Ennaceur, Abdelkader
AU - Lombard, Frederick W.
AU - Warner, David S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - Background: Cognitive dysfunction can be a long-term complication following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Preclinical models have been variously characterized to emulate this disorder. This study was designed to directly compare long-term cognitive deficits in the context of similar levels of insult severity in the cisterna magna double-blood (DB) injection versus prechiasmatic blood (PB) injection SAH models. Methods: Pilot work identified blood injectate volumes necessary to provide similar mortality rates (20–25 %). Rats were then randomly assigned to DB or PB insults. Saline injection and naïve rats were used as controls. Functional and cognitive outcome was assessed over 35 days. Results: DB and PB caused similar transient rotarod deficits. PB rats exhibited decreased anxiety behavior on the elevated plus maze, while anxiety was increased in DB. DB and PB caused differential deficits in the novel object recognition and novel object location tasks. Morris water maze performance was similarly altered in both models (decreased escape latency and increased swimming speed). SAH caused histologic damage in the medial prefrontal cortex, perirhinal cortex, and hippocampal CA1, although severity of injury in the respective regions differed between DB and PB. Conclusion: Both SAH models caused long-term cognitive deficits in the context of similar insult severity. Cognitive deficits differed between the two models, as did distribution of histologic injury. Each model offers unique properties and both models may be useful for study of SAH-induced cognitive deficits.
AB - Background: Cognitive dysfunction can be a long-term complication following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Preclinical models have been variously characterized to emulate this disorder. This study was designed to directly compare long-term cognitive deficits in the context of similar levels of insult severity in the cisterna magna double-blood (DB) injection versus prechiasmatic blood (PB) injection SAH models. Methods: Pilot work identified blood injectate volumes necessary to provide similar mortality rates (20–25 %). Rats were then randomly assigned to DB or PB insults. Saline injection and naïve rats were used as controls. Functional and cognitive outcome was assessed over 35 days. Results: DB and PB caused similar transient rotarod deficits. PB rats exhibited decreased anxiety behavior on the elevated plus maze, while anxiety was increased in DB. DB and PB caused differential deficits in the novel object recognition and novel object location tasks. Morris water maze performance was similarly altered in both models (decreased escape latency and increased swimming speed). SAH caused histologic damage in the medial prefrontal cortex, perirhinal cortex, and hippocampal CA1, although severity of injury in the respective regions differed between DB and PB. Conclusion: Both SAH models caused long-term cognitive deficits in the context of similar insult severity. Cognitive deficits differed between the two models, as did distribution of histologic injury. Each model offers unique properties and both models may be useful for study of SAH-induced cognitive deficits.
KW - Cisterna magna double blood injection model
KW - Cognitive dysfunction
KW - Prechiasmatic blood injection model
KW - Rat
KW - Subarachnoid hemorrhage
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U2 - 10.1007/s12028-016-0250-1
DO - 10.1007/s12028-016-0250-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 26896093
AN - SCOPUS:84958771694
SN - 1541-6933
VL - 25
SP - 293
EP - 305
JO - Neurocritical Care
JF - Neurocritical Care
IS - 2
ER -