PMID- 31917242 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210526 LR - 20210526 IS - 1872-7549 (Electronic) IS - 0166-4328 (Linking) VI - 381 DP - 2020 Mar 2 TI - Maternal deprivation impairs memory and cognitive flexibility, effect that is avoided by environmental enrichment. PG - 112468 LID - S0166-4328(19)31070-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112468 [doi] AB - Maternal deprivation (MD) causes cognitive deficits that persist until adulthood. Thereby, the environmental enrichment (EE) is widely used to increase brain plasticity. Here, pregnant female rats were used and their offspring were submitted to neonatal MD from post-natal day 1-10; after weaning the rats were submitted to EE. MD caused deficits on short and long-term aversive and recognition memory and on cognitive flexibility tested on reversed Morris Water Maze test. MD also promoted the decrease of hippocampal Brain-Derived Neurotropic Factor (BDNF) protein expression. The EE was able to protect against the cognitive deficits, avoiding the memory and the cognitive flexibility disrupting, and normalizing hippocampal BDNF expression of rats submitted to MD. These data confirms that MD promotes long-life memory deficits and demonstrates that MD causes cognitive flexibility disruption; the mechanisms seem involve the decrease of BDNF. We also demonstrate that EE, which improves BDNF, is able to avoid memory deficits and cognitive flexibility disrupts. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Menezes, Jefferson AU - Menezes J AD - Physiology Research Group, Stress, Memory and Behavior Lab, Federal University of Pampa, Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil. FAU - Souto das Neves, Ben-Hur AU - Souto das Neves BH AD - Physiology Research Group, Stress, Memory and Behavior Lab, Federal University of Pampa, Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil. FAU - Goncalves, Rithiele AU - Goncalves R AD - Physiology Research Group, Stress, Memory and Behavior Lab, Federal University of Pampa, Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil. FAU - Benetti, Fernando AU - Benetti F AD - Laboratorio de Neurofisiologia da Cognicao e do Desenvolvimento, Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Ciencias Basicas da Saude - ICBS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Sarmento Leite, 500 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. FAU - Mello-Carpes, Pamela Billig AU - Mello-Carpes PB AD - Physiology Research Group, Stress, Memory and Behavior Lab, Federal University of Pampa, Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil. Electronic address: pamelacarpes@unipampa.edu.br. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200107 PL - Netherlands TA - Behav Brain Res JT - Behavioural brain research JID - 8004872 RN - 0 (Bdnf protein, rat) RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Animals, Newborn MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*metabolism MH - Cognition/*physiology MH - Elevated Plus Maze Test MH - Hippocampus/*metabolism MH - *Housing, Animal MH - *Maternal Deprivation MH - Memory/*physiology MH - Memory Consolidation MH - Memory, Long-Term MH - Memory, Short-Term MH - Morris Water Maze Test MH - Neuronal Plasticity MH - Open Field Test MH - Rats MH - Recognition, Psychology OTO - NOTNLM OT - Aversive memory OT - BDNF OT - Neuroplasticity OT - Recognition memory EDAT- 2020/01/10 06:00 MHDA- 2021/05/27 06:00 CRDT- 2020/01/10 06:00 PHST- 2019/07/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/01/03 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/01/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/01/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/05/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/01/10 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0166-4328(19)31070-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112468 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Behav Brain Res. 2020 Mar 2;381:112468. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112468. Epub 2020 Jan 7.