Sex differences in spatial learning and memory and hippocampal long-term potentiation at perforant pathway-dentate gyrus (PP-DG) synapses in Wistar rats

• Published in: Behavioral and brain functions Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 9 - 11
• Main Authors: Safari, Samaneh, Ahmadi, Nesa, Mohammadkhani, Reihaneh, Ghahremani, Reza, Khajvand-Abedeni, Maryam, Shahidi, Siamak, Komaki, Alireza, Salehi, Iraj, Karimi, Seyed Asaad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central 01.11.2021; BMC
• Subjects: Animals; Cognition & reasoning; Dentate Gyrus; Dentate Gyrus, Spatial learning and memory; Female; Females; Gender differences; Hippocampal plasticity; Hippocampus; Latency; Long-Term Potentiation; Male; Males; Memory; Nervous system; Perforant Pathway; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Rodents; Sex Characteristics; Sex difference; Sex differences; Spatial discrimination learning; Spatial Learning; Spatial memory; Swimming; Synapses; Synaptic plasticity; Wistar Rat; Wistar Rat; Sex difference; Long-term potentiation; Hippocampus; Dentate Gyrus, Spatial learning and memory

Recent studies show that gender may have a significant impact on brain functions. However, the reports of sex effects on spatial ability and synaptic plasticity in rodents are divergent and controversial. Here spatial learning and memory was measured in male and female rats by using Morris water maz...