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Olfaction in female Wistar rats is influenced by dopaminergic periglomerular neurons after nigral and bulbar lesions.
Behavioural Pharmacology 2018 September 15
Hyposmia is found in Parkinsonian patients decades before the onset of motor disorders. The same occurs with sleep disorders, especially infuencing rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which affect a large percentage of people who have Parkinson's disease. These two disturbances presumably are closely related to a dopaminergic dysfunction. Therefore, we propose that selective lesions, induced by rotenone, of the periglomerular neurons within the olfactory bulb or of the nigrostriatal pathway could result in hyposmia. In addition, we hypothesized that REM sleep deprivation (REMSD) could have potential to generate a synergistic olfactory impairment in both lesion paradigms. The results indicated that rotenone-induced nigrostriatal lesions in female Wistar rats were associated with odor preference changes, similar to hedonic tone impairment, but without a supposed potentiation triggered by REMSD. The nigrostriatal injury negatively affected olfaction performance, which was counteracted, functionally, by REMSD. However, injury to periglomerular neurons was less influenced by REMSD, as olfactory performance was restored after rebound sleep. We conclude that female rats present a pattern of olfactory discrimination/preference that is dependent on the activities of the nigrostriatal and the main olfactory pathways.
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