Social transmission of food preference in mice: Methodology and application to galanin-overexpressing transgenic mice

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-31

  Wrenn, Craige C ^a   Harris, Ashley P ^a   Saavedra, Maria C ^a   Crawley, Jacqueline N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALANIN;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HABITUATION; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SMELLING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; FOOD PREFERENCES; GALANIN; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037311762     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.1.21     Document Type: Article

References (87)

1. Alberts, J. R., & Galef, B. G. (1971). Acute anosmia in the rat: A behavioral test of a peripherally-induced olfactory deficit. Physiology & Behavior, 6, 619-621.
2. Baxter, M. G., Holland, P. C., & Gallagher, M. (1997). Disruption of decrements in conditioned stimulus processing by selective removal of hippocampal cholinergic input. Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 5230-5236.
3. Beal, M. F., MacGarvey, U., & Swartz, K. J. (1990). Galanin immunoreactivity is increased in the nucleus basalis of Meynert in Alzheimer's disease. Annals of Neurology, 28, 157-161.
4. Berger-Sweeney, J., Stearns, N. A., Frick, K. M., Beard, B., & Baxter, M. G. (2000). Cholinergic basal forebrain is critical for social transmission of food preferences. Hippocampus, 10, 729-738.
5. Bowser, R., Kordower, J., & Mufson, E. (1997). A confocal microscopic analysis of galaninergic hyperinnervation of cholinergic basal forebrain neurons in Alzheimer's disease. Brain Pathology, 2, 723-730.
6. Brown, R. E., Stanford, L., & Schellinck, H. M. (2000). Developing standardized behavioral tests for knockout and mutant mice. ILAR Journal, 41, 163-174.
7. Bunsey, M., & Eichenbaum, H. (1995). Selective damage to the hippocampal region blocks long-term retention of a natural and nonspatial stimulus-stimulus association. Hippocampus, 5, 546-556.
8. Chan-Palay, V. (1988). Galanin hyperinnervates surviving neurons of the human basal nucleus of Meynert in dementias of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease: A hypothesis for the role of galanin in accentuating cholinergic dysfunction in dementia. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 273, 543-557.
9. Choleris, E., Guo, C., Liu, H. F., Mainardi, M., & Valsecchi, P. (1997). The effect of demonstrator age and number on duration of socially -induced food preferences in house mouse (Mus domesticus). Behavioural Processes, 41, 69-77.
10. Consolo, S., Bertorelli, R., Girotti, P., La Porta, C., Bartfai, T., Parenti, M., & Zambelli, M. (1991). Pertussis toxin-sensitive G-protein mediates galanin's inhibition of scopolamine-evoked acetylcholine release in vivo and carbachol-stimulated phosphoinositide turnover in rat ventral hippocampus. Neuroscience Letters, 126, 29-32.
11. Counts, S. E., Perez, S. E., Kahl, U., Bartfai, T., Bowser, R. P., Deecher, D. C., et al. (2001). Galanin: Neurobiologic mechanisms and therapeutic potential for Alzheimer's disease. CNS Drug Reviews, 7, 445-470.
12. Crawley, J. N. (1996). Minireview. Galanin-acetylcholine interactions: Relevance to memory and Alzheimer's disease. Life Sciences, 58, 2185-2199.
13. Crawley, J. N. (2000). What's wrong with my mouse? Behavioral phenotyping of transgenic and knockout mice. New York: Wiley-Liss.
14. Crawley, J. N., & Paylor, R. (1997). A proposed test battery and constellations of specific behavioral paradigms to investigate the behavioral phenotypes of transgenic and knockout mice. Hormones and Behavior, 31, 197-211.
15. Drachman, D. A., & Leavitt. J. (1974). Human memory and the cholinergic system. A relationship to aging? Archives of Neurology, 30, 113-121.
16. Dutar, P., Lamour, Y., & Nicoll, R. A. (1989). Galanin blocks the slow cholinergic EPSP in CA1 pyramidal neurons from ventral hippocampus. European Journal of Pharmacology, 164, 355-360.
17. Ferguson, G. D., Anagnostaras, S. G., Silva, A. J., & Herschman, H. R. (2000). Deficits in memory and motor performance in synaptotagmin IV mutant mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 97, 5598-5603.
18. Ferreira, G., Meurisse, M., Gervais, R., Ravel, N., & Levy, F. (2001). Extensive immunolesions of basal forebrain cholinergic system impair offspring recognition in sheep. Neuroscience, 106, 103-115.
19. File, S. E. (2001). Factors controlling measures of anxiety and responses to novelty in the mouse. Behavioural Brain Research, 125, 151-157.
20. Fisone, G., Wu, C. F., Consolo, S., Nordström, Ö., Brynne, N., Bartfai, T., et al. (1987). Galanin inhibits acetylcholine release in the ventral hippocampus of the rat: Histochemical, autoradiographic, in vivo, and in vitro studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 84, 7339-7343.
21. Galef, B. G. (1990). Necessary and sufficient conditions for communication of diet preferences by Norway rats. Animal Learning & Behavior, 18, 347-351.
22. Galef, B. G., Mason. J. R., Preti, G., & Bean, N. J. (1988). Carbondisulfide: A semiochemical mediating socially-induced diet choice in rats. Physiology & Behavior, 42, 119-124.
23. Galef, B. G., & Stein, M. (1985). Demonstrator influence on observer diet preference: Analyses of critical social interactions and olfactory signals. Animal Learning & Behavior, 13, 31-38.
24. Galef, B. G., & Wigmore, S. W. (1983). Transfer of information concerning distant foods: A laboratory investigation of the information-center hypothesis. Animal Behaviour, 31, 748-758.
25. Gass, P., Wolfer, D. P., Balschun, D., Rudolph, D., Frey, U., Lipp, H.-P., & Schultz, G. (1998). Deficits in memory tasks of mice with CREB mutations depend on gene dosage. Learning & Memory, 5, 274-288.
26. Giese, K. P., Storm, J. F., Reuter, D., Fedorov, N. B., Shao, L. R., Leicher, T., et al. (1998). Reduced K+ channel inactivation, spike broadening, and after-hyperpolarization in Kv beta 1.1-deficient mice with impaired learning. Learning & Memory, 5, 257-273.
27. Givens, B., Olton, D., & Crawley, J. (1992). Galanin in the medial septal area impairs working memory. Brain Research, 582, 71-77.
28. Gleason, T., Dreiling, J., & Crawley, J. (1999). Strain differences in response to galanin on the Morris water task. Neuropeptides, 33, 265-270.
29. Guan, X., Blank, J. L., & Dluzen, D. E. (1993). Role of olfactory bulb norepinephrine in the identification and recognition of chemical cues. Physiology & Behavior, 53, 437-441.
30. Hall, F. S., Humby, T., Wilkinson, L. S., & Robbins, T. W. (1997). The effects of isolation-rearing of rats on behavioural responses to food and environmental novelty. Physiology & Behavior, 62, 281-290.
31. Harding, J. W., & Wright, J. W. (1979). Reversible effects of olfactory nerve section on behavior and biochemistry in mice. Brain Research Bulletin, 4, 17-22.
32. Hiramatsu, M., Mori, H., Murasawa, H., & Kameyama, T. (1996). Improvement by dynorphin A (1-13) of galanin-induced impairment of memory accompanied by blockade of reductions in acetylcholine release in rats. British Journal of Pharmacology, 118, 255-260.
33. Hökfelt, T., Bartfai, T., & Crawley, J. N. (Eds.). (1998). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Vol. 863. Galanin: Basic research discoveries and therapeutic implications. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
34. Hökfelt, T., Broberger, C., Xu, Z. Q., Sergeyev, V., Ubink, R., & Diez, M. (2000). Neuropeptides - An overview. Neuropharmacology, 39, 1337-1356.
35. Hökfelt, T., Millhorn, D., Seroogy, K., Tsuruo, Y., Ceccatelli, S., Lindh, B., et al. (1987). Coexistence of peptides with classical neurotransmitters. Experientia, 43, 768-780.
36. Holmes, A., Yang, R. J., & Crawley, J. N. (2002). Evaluation of an anxiety-related phenotype in galanin overexpressing transgenic mice. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 18, 151-165.
37. Karelson, E., & Langel, Ü. (1998). Galaninergic signalling and adenylate cyclase. Neuropeptides, 32, 197-210.
38. Kask, K., Langel, Ü., & Bartfai, T. (1995). Galanin - a neuropeptide with inhibitory actions. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, 15, 653-673.
39. Kinney, G. A., Emmerson, P. J., & Miller, R. J. (1998). Galanin receptormediated inhibition of glutamate release in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus. Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 3489-3500.
40. Kogan, J. H., Frankland, P. W., Blendy, J. A., Coblentz, J., Marowitz, Z., Schutz, G., & Silva, A. J. (1996). Spaced training induces normal long-term memory in CREB mutant mice. Current Biology, 7, 1-11.
41. Leanza, G., Nilsson, O. G., Wiley, R. G., & Bjorklund, A. (1995). Selective lesioning of the basal forebrain cholinergic system by intraventricular 192-IgG-saporin: Behavioral, biochemical and stereological studies in the rat. European Journal of Neuroscience, 7, 329-343.
42. o. Brain Research, 941, 62-71.
43. Macht, D. I. (1924). A pharmacological analysis of the cerebral effects of atropine, homatropin, scopolamin, and related drugs. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 22, 35-48.
44. Malin, D., Novy, B., Lett-Brown, A., Plotner, R., May, B., Radulescu, S., et al. (1992). Galanin attenuates one-trial reward learning. Life Sciences, 50, 939-944.
45. Mayeux-Portas, V., File, S. E., Stewart, C. L., & Morris, R. J. (2000). Mice lacking the cell adhesion molecule Thy-1 fail to use socially transmitted cues to direct their choice of food. Current Biology, 10, 68-75.
46. Mazarati, A. M., Hohmann, J. G., Bacon, A., Liu, H., Sankar, R., Steiner, R. A., et al. (2000). Modulation of hippocampal excitability and seizures by galanin. Journal of Neuroscience, 20, 6276-6281.
47. McDonald, M. P., & Crawley, J. N. (1996). Galanin receptor antagonist M40 blocks galanin-induced choice accuracy deficits on a delayednonmatching-to-position task. Behavioral Neuroscience, 110, 1025-1032.
48. 1 agonist improves delayed nonmatching to position choice accuracy in rats with cholinergic lesions. Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 5078-5085.
49. McGaughy, J., Kaiser, T., & Sarter, M. (1996). Behavioral vigilance following infusions of 192 IgG-saporin into the basal forebrain: Selectivity of the behavioral impairment and relation to cortical AChE-positive fiber density. Behavioral Neuroscience, 110, 247-265.
50. Melander, T., Staines, W. A., Hökfelt, T., Rokaeus, A., Eckenstein, F., Salvaterra, P. M., & Wainer, B. H. (1985). Galanin-like immunoreactivity in cholinergic neurons of the septum-basal forebrain complex projecting to the hippocampus of the rat. Brain Research, 360, 130-138.
51. Melander, T., Staines, W. A., & Rokaeus, A. (1986). Galanin-like immunoreactivity in hippocampal afferents in the rat, with special reference to cholinergic and noradrenergic inputs. Neuroscience, 19, 223-240.
52. Merchenthaler, I., Lopez, F. J., & Negro-Vilar, A. (1993). Anatomy and physiology of central galanin-containing pathways. Progress in Neurobiology, 40, 711-769.
53. Molchan, S. E., Martinez, R. A., Hill, J. L., Weingartner, H. J., Thompson, K., Vitiello, B., & Sunderland, T. (1992). Increased cognitive sensitivity to scopolamine with age and a perspective on the scopolamine model. Brain Research Reviews, 17, 215-226.
54. Mufson, E. J., Cochran, E., Benzing, W. C., & Kordower, J. H. (1993). Galaninergic innervation of the cholinergic vertical limb of the diagonal band (Ch2) and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in aging, Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome. Dementia, 4, 237-250.
55. Nelson, R. J., & Chiavegatto, S. (2000). Aggression in knockout mice. ILAR Journal, 41, 153-162.
56. Nordström, Ö., Melander, T., Hökfelt, T., Bartfai, T., & Goldstein, M. (1987). Evidence for an inhibitory effect of the peptide galanin on dopamine release from the rat median-eminence. Neuroscience Letters, 73, 21-26.
57. Ögren, S. O., Kehr, J., & Schött, P. A. (1996). Effects of ventral hippocampal galanin on spatial learning and on in vivo acetylcholine release in the rat. Neuroscience, 75, 1127-1140.
58. 2+ channels. Journal of Neurochemistry, 56, 739-747.
59. Pieribone, V. A., Xu, Z. Q., Zhang, X., Grillner, S., Bartfai, T., & Hökfelt, T. (1995). Galanin induces a hyperpolarization of norepinephrinecontaining locus coeruleus neurons in the brainstem slice. Neuroscience, 64, 861-874.
60. Reimann, W., & Schneider, F. (1993). Galanin receptor activation attenuates norepinephrine release from rat spinal cord slices. Life Sciences, 52, PL251-PL254.
61. Ridley, R. M., Barefoot, H. C., Maclean, C. J., Pugh, P., & Baker, H. F. (1999). Different effects on learning ability after injection of the cholinergic immunotoxin ME20.4IgG-saporin into the diagonal band of Broca, basal nucleus of Meynert, or both in monkeys. Behavioral Neuroscience, 113, 303-315.
62. Robinson, J. K., & Crawley, J. N. (1993a). Intraseptal galanin potentiates scopolamine impairment of delayed nonmatching to sample. Journal of Neuroscience, 13, 5119-5125.
63. Robinson, J. K., & Crawley, J. N. (1993b). Intraventricular galanin impairs delayed nonmatching-to-sample performance in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 107, 458-467.
64. Robinson, J. K., & Crawley, J. N. (1994). Analysis of anatomical sites at which galanin impairs delayed nonmatching to sample in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 108, 941-950.
65. Robinson, J. K., Zocchi, A., Pert, A., & Crawley, J. N. (1996). Galanin microinjected into the medial septum inhibits scopolamine-induced acetylcholine overflow in the rat ventral hippocampus. Brain Research, 709, 81-87.
66. Rush, D. K. (1988). Scopolamine amnesia of passive avoidance: A deficit of information acquisition. Behavioral and Neural Biology, 50, 255-274.
67. Sakurai, E., Maeda, T., Kaneko, S., Akaike, A., & Satoh, M. (1996). Galanin inhibits long-term potentiation at Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses in guinea-pig hippocampal slices. Neuroscience Letters, 212, 21-24.
68. Schellinck, H. M., West, A. M., & Brown, R. E. (1992). Rats can discriminate between the urine odors of genetically identical mice maintained on different diets. Physiology & Behavior, 51, 1079-1082.
69. Schött, P. A., Hökfelt, T., & Ögren, S. O. (2000). Galanin and spatial learning in the rat. Evidence for a differential role for galanin in subregions of the hippocampal formation. Neuropharmacology, 39, 1386-1403.
70. Shandra, A., Mazarati, A., & Servetskii, K. (1994). Influence of the neuropeptide galanin on active avoidance in rats. Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology, 24, 429-432.
71. Skofitsch, G., & Jacobowitz, D. M. (1986). Quantitative distribution of galanin-like immunoreactivity in the rat central nervous system. Peptides, 7, 609-613.
72. Stefani, M., & Gold, P. (1998). Intra-septal injections of glucose and glibenclamide attenuate galanin-induced spontaneous alternation performance deficits in the rat. Brain Research, 813, 50-56.
73. Steiner, R. A., Hohmann, J. G., Holmes, A., Wrenn, C. C., Cadd, G., Jureus, A., et al. (2001). Galanin transgenic mice display cognitive and neurochemical deficits characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 98, 4184-4189.
74. Stowers, L., Holy, T. E., Meister, M., Dulac, C., & Koentges, G. (2002, February 22). Loss of sex discrimination and male-male aggression in mice deficient for TRP2. Science, 295, 1493-1500.
75. Strupp, B. J., & Levitsky, D. A. (1984). Social transmission of food preferences in adult hooded rats (Rattus norvegicus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 98, 257-266.
76. Sundström, E., Archer, T., Melander, T., & Hökfelt, T. (1988). Galanin impairs acquisition but not retrieval of spatial memory in rats studied in the Morris swim maze. Neuroscience Letters, 88, 331-335.
77. Tsuda, K., Goldstein, M., & Masuyama, Y. (1990). Neuropeptide Y and galanin enhance the inhibitory effects of clonidine on norepinephrine release from medulla oblongata of rats. American Journal of Hypertension, 3, 800-802.
78. Tsuda, K., Tsuda, S., Nishio, I., Masuyama, Y., & Goldstein, M. (1992). Modulation of norepinephrine release by galanin in rat medulla oblongata. Hypertension, 20, 361-366.
79. Ukai, M., Miura, M., & Kameyama, T. (1995). Effects of galanin on passive avoidance response, elevated plus-maze learning, and spontaneous alternation performance in mice. Peptides, 16, 1283-1286.
80. Valsecchi, P., & Galef, B. G. (1989). Social influences on the food preferences of house mice (Mus musculus). International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2, 245-256.
81. Whitehouse, J. M. (1964). Effects of atropine on discrimination learning in the rat. Journal of Comparative Physiology and Psychology, 57, 13-15.
82. Winocur, G., McDonald, R. M., & Moscovitch, M. (2001). Anterograde and retrograde amnesia in rats with large hippocampal lesions. Hippocampus, 11, 18-26.
83. Wrenn, C. C., & Crawley, J. N. (2001). Pharmacological evidence supporting a role for galanin in cognition and affect. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 25, 283-299.
84. Wrenn, C. C., Holmes, A., & Crawley, J. N. (2002). [Microstructure of feeding in galanin overexposing mice]. Unpublished raw data.
85. Wrenn, C. C., Lappi, D. A., & Wiley, R. G. (1999). Threshold relationship between lesion extent of the cholinergic basal forebrain in the rat and working memory impairment in the radial maze. Brain Research, 847, 284-298.
86. Xu, Z. Q. D., Zhang, X., Pieribone, V. A., Grillner, S., & Hökfelt, T. (1998). Galanin-5-hydroxytryptamine interactions: Electrophysiological, immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization studies on rat dorsal raphe neurons with a note on galanin R1 and R2 receptors. Neuroscience, 87, 79-94.
87. Zini, S., Roisin, M. P., Langel, Ü., Bartfai, T., & Ben-Ari, Y. (1993). Galanin reduces release of endogenous excitatory amino acids in the rat hippocampus. European Journal of Pharmacology, 245, 1-7.