Journal
BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 129, Issue 6, Pages 822-831Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/bne0000097
Keywords
cognitive deficits; Na+; K+-ATPase alpha 3; Atp1a3; mice; alternating hemiplegia
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- United Kingdom Medical Research Council [G0900625]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP-94856]
- Ontario Mental Health Foundation
- Wellcome Trust
- Canada Research Chair in Learning and Memory
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Cognitive impairment is a prominent feature in a range of different movement disorders. Children with Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood are prone to developmental delay, with deficits in cognitive functioning becoming progressively more evident as they grow older. Heterozygous mutations of the ATP1A3 gene, encoding the Na+,K+-ATPase alpha 3 subunit, have been identified as the primary cause of Alternating Hemiplegia. Heterozygous Myshkin mice have an amino acid change (I810N) in Na+,K+-ATPase alpha 3 that is also found in Alternating Hemiplegia. To investigate whether Myshkin mice exhibit learning and memory deficits resembling the cognitive impairments of patients with Alternating Hemiplegia, we subjected them to a range of behavioral tests that interrogate various cognitive domains. Myshkin mice showed impairments in spatial memory, spatial habituation, locomotor habituation, object recognition, social recognition, and trace fear conditioning, as well as in the visible platform version of the Morris water maze. Increasing the duration of training ameliorated the deficit in social recognition but not in spatial habituation. The deficits of Myshkin mice in all of the learning and memory tests used are consistent with the cognitive impairment of the vast majority of AHC patients. These mice could thus help advance our understanding of the underlying neural mechanisms influencing cognitive impairment in patients with ATP1A3-related disorders.
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