Characteristic parameters of eyeblink responses during acquisition of delay and trace conditioning in guinea pigs
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Characteristic parameters of eyeblink responses during acquisition of delay and trace conditioning in guinea pigs
Journal of Army Medical UniversityVol. 32, Issue 2, Pages: 95-98(2010)
作者机构:
第三军医大学基础医学部:生理学教研室,重庆市神经科学研究所,教学实验中心
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CLC:R339.141;R-332;R338.61
Published:2010,
Published Online:30 January 2010,
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CHEN HAO, HU BO, YANG LI, et al. Characteristic parameters of eyeblink responses during acquisition of delay and trace conditioning in guinea pigs. [J]. Journal of army medical university, 2010, 32(2): 95-98.
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CHEN HAO, HU BO, YANG LI, et al. Characteristic parameters of eyeblink responses during acquisition of delay and trace conditioning in guinea pigs. [J]. Journal of army medical university, 2010, 32(2): 95-98.DOI:
Characteristic parameters of eyeblink responses during acquisition of delay and trace conditioning in guinea pigs
Objective To investigate the changes of characteristic parameters in the eyeblink responses during the acquisition of delay and trace eyeblink conditioning in albino guinea pigs. Methods A 500 ms tone conditioned stimulus (CS) was paired with a 100 ms corneal oxygen-puff unconditioned stimulus (US). Totally 12 guinea pigs were trained for 10 consecutive sessions of delay (
n
=6) and trace eyeblink conditioning (
n
=6). During the experiments
a spring-return potentiometer was used to detect the activity of orbicularis oculi muscle. Homemade software written under the Matlab environment was used to quantitatively analyze the behavioral data.
Results Both groups of guinea pigs successfully acquired the delay and trace conditioned eyeblink responses (CRs)
respectively. Relative to the trace-conditioned guinea pigs
the delay-conditioned guinea pigs acquired the CRs with faster rates and higher peak amplitudes (
P
<
0.01). However
the CR peak latency
the peak amplitude and latency of the unconditioned eyeblink responses did not significantly change during 10 eyeblink conditioning sessions (
P
>0.05). Conclusion During eyeblink conditioning
the guinea pigs exhibit characteristic parameter changes of eyeblink responses similar to those observed in other common-used rodents.