PMID- 28593819 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200102 LR - 20211204 IS - 1814-1412 (Electronic) IS - 1562-2975 (Linking) VI - 20 IP - 3 DP - 2019 Mar TI - Voluntary exercise improves cognitive deficits in female dominant-negative DISC1 transgenic mouse model of neuropsychiatric disorders. PG - 243-252 LID - 10.1080/15622975.2017.1323118 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVES: Physical exercise has gained increasing interest as a treatment modality that improves prognosis in psychiatric patients. The disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) gene is a candidate gene for major mental illness. In this study, we aimed to determine whether voluntary wheel running can improve cognitive deficits of dominant-negative DISC1 transgenic mice (DN-DISC1). METHODS: DN-DISC1 and control mice (10-week-old male and female) were placed for 14 days in a cage with or without access to a running wheel. Two weeks later, mice underwent behavioural tests evaluating cognition and social approach and recognition. RESULTS: Voluntary exercise improved performance in the novel object recognition test, restored the impairment in spatial memory in the Y maze, and reversed the deficit in social recognition memory in DN-DISC1 females. DN-DISC1 males did not exhibit behavioural deficits at baseline. Tissue analysis revealed that exercise induced a significant increase in hippocampal expression of doublecortin (DCX), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1R) only in DN-DISC1 females. CONCLUSIONS: Voluntary exercise is beneficial in attenuating cognitive deficits observed in a rodent model relevant for neuropsychiatric disorders. The data add a preclinical aspect to the accumulating clinical data supporting the incorporation of physical exercise to patients' care. FAU - Segal-Gavish, Hadar AU - Segal-Gavish H AD - a Laboratory of Neuroscience , Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel. FAU - Barzilay, Ran AU - Barzilay R AD - a Laboratory of Neuroscience , Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel. AD - b Research Unit , Geha Mental Health Center , Petach Tikva , Israel. FAU - Rimoni, Ofri AU - Rimoni O AD - a Laboratory of Neuroscience , Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel. FAU - Offen, Daniel AU - Offen D AD - a Laboratory of Neuroscience , Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20170608 PL - England TA - World J Biol Psychiatry JT - The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry JID - 101120023 RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (DCX protein, human) RN - 0 (Dcx protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Disc1 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Doublecortin Domain Proteins) RN - 0 (Doublecortin Protein) RN - 0 (Microtubule-Associated Proteins) RN - 0 (Nerve Tissue Proteins) RN - 0 (Neuropeptides) RN - 0 (Receptor, Cannabinoid, CB1) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/metabolism MH - Cognitive Dysfunction/metabolism/*therapy MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Doublecortin Domain Proteins MH - Doublecortin Protein MH - Female MH - Hippocampus/metabolism/*physiopathology MH - Humans MH - Male MH - *Maze Learning MH - Mice MH - Mice, Transgenic MH - Microtubule-Associated Proteins/metabolism MH - Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics MH - Neuropeptides/metabolism MH - *Physical Conditioning, Animal MH - Receptor, Cannabinoid, CB1/metabolism MH - Running MH - Schizophrenia/metabolism/*therapy OTO - NOTNLM OT - DISC1 OT - animal model OT - exercise OT - neurogenesis OT - recognition memory EDAT- 2017/06/09 06:00 MHDA- 2020/01/03 06:00 CRDT- 2017/06/09 06:00 PHST- 2017/06/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/01/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/06/09 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/15622975.2017.1323118 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - World J Biol Psychiatry. 2019 Mar;20(3):243-252. doi: 10.1080/15622975.2017.1323118. Epub 2017 Jun 8.