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Journal Article
Multi-domain cognitive assessment of male mice shows space radiation is not harmful to high-level cognition and actually improves pattern separation
2020
Overview
Astronauts on interplanetary missions - such as to Mars - will be exposed to space radiation, a spectrum of highly-charged, fast-moving particles that includes
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Fe and
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Si. Earth-based preclinical studies show space radiation decreases rodent performance in low- and some high-level cognitive tasks. Given astronaut use of touchscreen platforms during training and space flight and given the ability of rodent touchscreen tasks to assess functional integrity of brain circuits and multiple cognitive domains in a non-aversive way, here we exposed 6-month-old C57BL/6J male mice to whole-body space radiation and subsequently assessed them on a touchscreen battery. Relative to Sham treatment,
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Fe irradiation did not overtly change performance on tasks of visual discrimination, reversal learning, rule-based, or object-spatial paired associates learning, suggesting preserved functional integrity of supporting brain circuits. Surprisingly,
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Fe irradiation improved performance on a dentate gyrus-reliant pattern separation task; irradiated mice learned faster and were more accurate than controls. Improved pattern separation performance did not appear to be touchscreen-, radiation particle-, or neurogenesis-dependent, as
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Fe and
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Si irradiation led to faster context discrimination in a non-touchscreen task and
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Fe decreased new dentate gyrus neurons relative to Sham. These data urge revisitation of the broadly-held view that space radiation is detrimental to cognition.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC,Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ 631/532
/ Animals
/ Circuits
/ Cognition - radiation effects
/ Dentate Gyrus - radiation effects
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Interactive computer systems
/ Male
/ Mice
/ Neurons
/ Paired-Associate Learning - physiology
/ Paired-Associate Learning - radiation effects
/ Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
/ Pattern Recognition, Visual - radiation effects
/ Reversal Learning - physiology
/ Reversal Learning - radiation effects
/ Rodents
/ Science
/ Spatial discrimination learning
