Xue Yuqi,Zhang Libin,Yang Yanxin,Hu Chen,Chen Hao,Hu Bo,Yang Li.Behavioral characteristics during extinction of delay and trace eyeblink conditionings in guinea pigs[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2015,37(04):310-314.
Xue Yuqi,Zhang Libin,Yang Yanxin,Hu Chen,Chen Hao,Hu Bo,Yang Li.Behavioral characteristics during extinction of delay and trace eyeblink conditionings in guinea pigs[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2015,37(04):310-314.DOI:
Behavioral characteristics during extinction of delay and trace eyeblink conditionings in guinea pigs
Objective To investigate the behavioral characteristics of eyeblink responses during the extinction of delay and trace eyeblink conditionings in guinea pigs. Methods A total of 27 male guinea pigs (12-16 weeks-old
450-600 g) were randomly assigned into 2 groups
delay eyeblink conditioning group (n=13)
and trace eyeblink conditioning group (n=14). Pure tone conditioned stimulus (CS) of 2 kHz was paired with corneal oxygen-puff unconditioned stimulus (US) to acquire delay and trace conditioned eyeblink responses (CR). The guinea pigs received CS alone during the extinction. A high-resolution spring-return potentiometer was used to monitor the activities of left orbicularis oculi muscles. Self-developed software written in the Matlab environment was used to quantitatively analyze the behavioral data. Results Compared with the trace-conditioned guinea pigs
the delay-conditioned guinea pigs acquired faster CRs (P0.05) and higher peak amplitude (P0.05). Nevertheless
there was no significant difference in the CR extinction rate between the 2 groups (P0.05). In addition
more obvious spontaneous recovery of the extinguished CRs was observed in the delay-conditioned guinea pigs (P0.05) as compared to the trace-conditioned guinea pigs. Conclusion The behavioral characteristics of delay CR extinction are different from those of trace CR extinction.