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Effect of piracetam, a nootropic agent, on discrimination learning deficits induced by parental undernutrition and environmental impoverishment in young rats.

Abstract
The study was conducted on 64 Charles Foster albino rats which were equally distributed into 8 even-matched groups, following a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design by varying three independent factors at two levels: nutrition--normal and undernutrition, environmental--enrichment and impoverishment, and drug treatment--vehicle and piracetam (100 mg/kg, ip). Prenatal nutrition was induced by restricting the mother's food intake. The environmental enrichment/impoverishment and the vehicle/drug treatments were given during the postweaning period of the rat pups. The animals were subjected to original and subsequent reversal brightness discrimination learning tests in a single unit T-maze at 8-9 weeks of age. The results indicate that undernutrition and environmental impoverishment significantly attenuated the original discrimination as well as the reversal discrimination learning. Piracetam treatment improved the learning performance of normally reared rats and also attenuated the original and reversal learning deficits induced by prenatal undernutrition and postnatal impoverishment. The results indicate that piracetam may be useful in memory deficits induced by malnutrition.
AuthorsA K Jaiswal, S N Upadhyay, S K Bhattacharya
JournalIndian journal of experimental biology (Indian J Exp Biol) Vol. 27 Issue 3 Pg. 269-73 (Mar 1989) ISSN: 0019-5189 [Print] India
PMID2606536 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Pyrrolidinones
  • Piracetam
Topics
  • Analysis of Variance
  • Animals
  • Discrimination Learning (drug effects)
  • Female
  • Food Deprivation
  • Male
  • Nutrition Disorders (physiopathology)
  • Piracetam (pharmacology)
  • Pyrrolidinones (pharmacology)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Sensory Deprivation

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