Food Finding Test without Deprivation : A Sensorial Paradigm Sensitive to Sex, Genotype, and Isolation Shows Signatures of Derangements in Old Mice with Alzheimer's Disease Pathology and Normal Aging
Marín-Pardo, Daniela (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Psiquiatria i de Medicina Legal)
Gimenez-Llort, Lydia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Psiquiatria i de Medicina Legal)

Fecha:	2024
Resumen:	The Food Finding Test (FFT) olfactory paradigm without overnight food deprivation examined olfaction in aged (16-months-old) animals. Ethograms of three goal-directed behaviors towards hidden food (sniffing, finding and eating) elicited in male and female 3xTg-AD mice for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their age-matched C57BL/6 wild-type counterparts with normal aging were meticulously analyzed with the support of video recordings. The new FFT protocol elicited longer ethograms than previously reported with the standard deprivation protocol. However, it was sensitive when identifying genotype- and sex-dependent olfactory signatures for the temporal patterns of slow sniffing, finding, and eating in AD and males, but it had a striking consistency in females. The impact of forced social isolation was studied and it was found to exert sex-dependent modifications of the ethogram, mostly in males. Still, in both sexes, a functional derangement was detected since the internal correlations among the behaviors decreased or were lost under isolated conditions. In conclusion, the new paradigm without overnight deprivation was sensitive to sex (males), genotype (AD), and social context (isolation-dependent changes) in its ethogram and functional correlation. At the translational level, it is a warning about the impact of isolation in the advanced stages of the disease, paying notable attention to the male sex.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	3xTg-AD mice ; Alzheimer's disease ; Aging ; Animal models ; Behavioral neuroscience ; Ethogram ; Methods ; Neuroethology ; Sniffing loss
Publicado en:	Brain sciences, Vol. 14 (march 2024) , ISSN 2076-3425

DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14030288
PMID: 38539675

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