PMID- 32184155 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210505 LR - 20210505 IS - 1872-7549 (Electronic) IS - 0166-4328 (Linking) VI - 387 DP - 2020 Jun 1 TI - Hippocampal cognitive impairment in juvenile rats after repeated mild traumatic brain injury. PG - 112585 LID - S0166-4328(20)30284-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112585 [doi] AB - There is growing awareness that repeated mild traumatic brain injury (r-mTBI) can cause deficits in learning and memory performance, however there is still a paucity of preclinical data identifying the extent of these deficits. Epidemiological data shows that juveniles are at high risk to sustain r-mTBI, and these injuries may cause significant changes in cognitive abilities, as they occur during a period where the brain is still maturing. This is particularly true for the hippocampus, a brain region important for learning and memory processes. R-mTBI during the juvenile period may disrupt functional capacity of the hippocampus, and thus the normal development of cognitive processes associated with this structure. To examine this issue we used a model of awake closed head injury (ACHI) and administered 8 impacts over a 4 day period to juvenile male and female rats (P25-28). A neurological assessment was preformed after each impact, and anxiety and learning related behaviours were examined 1 and 7 days after the last impact. Our results indicate that r-mTBI was associated with sensorimotor deficits in the acute phase immediately after each procedure. R-mTBI also reduced the capacity for hippocampal-dependent learning for at least 7 days post-injury, but did not result in any long-lasting changes in anxiety-related behaviours. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Pinar, Cristina AU - Pinar C AD - Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8P 5C2, Canada. FAU - Trivino-Paredes, Juan AU - Trivino-Paredes J AD - Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8P 5C2, Canada. FAU - Perreault, Samantha T AU - Perreault ST AD - Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8P 5C2, Canada. FAU - Christie, Brian R AU - Christie BR AD - Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8P 5C2, Canada; Island Medical Program and Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Victoria, British Columbia, V8P 5C2, Canada. Electronic address: brain64@uvic.ca. LA - eng GR - CIHR/Canada PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200314 PL - Netherlands TA - Behav Brain Res JT - Behavioural brain research JID - 8004872 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Anxiety MH - Brain Concussion/complications/*psychology MH - Cognitive Dysfunction/etiology/*physiopathology MH - Female MH - Hippocampus/*physiopathology MH - Learning MH - Male MH - Rats, Long-Evans MH - Spatial Memory OTO - NOTNLM OT - Juvenile OT - Learning and memory OT - Sex differences OT - mTBI COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2020/03/19 06:00 MHDA- 2021/05/06 06:00 CRDT- 2020/03/19 06:00 PHST- 2019/08/19 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/03/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/03/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/03/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/05/06 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/03/19 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0166-4328(20)30284-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112585 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Behav Brain Res. 2020 Jun 1;387:112585. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112585. Epub 2020 Mar 14.