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Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychopharmacology. 2007 Nov 28;33(9):2061–2079. doi: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301639

Table 3.

Animal preparation Phenotypes assessed
DA-related behavior Gating Cognitive behavior Social behavior Molecular signature Response to APD
Genetic preparations
 NMDA NR1 receptor hypomorph (Mohn et al, 1999; Fradley et al, 2005) Enhanced response to amphetamine Disrupted PPI Impaired social interaction 95% reduction in NRI expression Behaviors improved by APD
 STOP KO (Fradley et al, 2005) Hyperactive Disrupted PPI PPI deficit not blocked by clozapine
 GluR-A receptor KO (Bannerman et al, 2004) Hyperactive Disrupted spatial working memory Anxiety prone
 GABAAα3 receptor KO (Yee et al, 2005) Spontaneous locomotor activity slightly increased but not after amphetamine Disrupted PPI PPI defect improved by haloperidol Rx
 Dishevelled 1 KO (Lijam et al, 1997) Disrupted PPI Impaired social interaction
 Calcineurin Aγ KO (Miyakawa et al, 2003) Enhanced response to amphetamine Disrupted PPI and latent inhibition Decreased working memory Impaired social interaction Inducible KO
 Catecholamine O-methyl transferase (COMT) KO (Gogos et al, 1998; Huotari et al, 2004) No potentiation of amphetamine-induced locomotion Increased DOPAC, D1 and D2 unchanged Increased anxiety and aggression
 Heterozygous Reeler mouse (Ballmaier et al, 2002; Costa et al, 2002; Podhorna and Didriksen, 2004) Kruger et al, 2006 Enhanced mesolimbic dopamine Decreased working memory; no decrease in prefrontal cortex dependent task Impaired social interaction Reduced GAD 67, increased DNA methylation
 Neurexophillin 3 KO (Beglopoulos et al, 2005) Reduced rotorod performance Disrupted PPI but increased startle response Expressed in Cajal-Retzius cells
 Neuregulin 1 hypomorph (Stefansson et al, 2002) Hyperactive in open field test Disrupted PPI Reduced NMDA receptor activity Open field behavior reversed by clozapine but not PPI
 DISC1 KO (Hikida et al, 2007; Duan et al, 2007; Pletnikov et al, 2007; Clapcote et al, 2007) Enhanced locomotor activity Disrupted PPI; Decreased latent inhibition Impaired social interaction Decreased cortical parvalbumin-containing cells, accelerated neurogenesis with aberrant connectivity
 ErbB4 KO (Golub et al, 2004) Reduced spontaneous activity Reduced Morris water maze learning
 nPAS 1/3 KO (Erbel-Sieler et al, 2004; Pieper et al, 2005) Enhanced open field locomotion Disrupted PPI Decreased social recognition Reduced reelin interneurons
 Heterozygous Nurr1 KO (Rojas et al, 2007) Hyperactive in novel environment and also after amphetamine Decreased emotional memory Reduced DA turnover in striatum; increased DA turnover in PFC Haloperidol reverses spontaneous hyperactivity
 Retinoic acid receptor KO (Krezel et al, 1998) Reduced open field locomotion Reduced D1R & D2R
 Vasopressin 1a receptor KO (Bielsky et al, 2005) Decreased social recognition Phenotype rescued by increase V1a expression in lateral septum
 Vasopressin 1b receptor KO (Wersinger et al, 2002) Reduced PFC DA Disrupted PPI Impaired social recognition Atypical APD improve PPI but not haloperidol
 Oxytocin and oxytocin receptor KO (Ferguson et al, 2001; Takayanagi et al, 2005) Impaired social discrimination More aggressive
 Dopamine Transporter KO (Trinh et al, 2003; Rodriguiz et al, 2004) Increased DA and decreased D1R, D2R, Hyperactive Disrupted PPI Impaired social behavior More aggressive
 Regulator of G-protein signalling 4 (RGS4) KO (Grillet et al, 2005) Subtle PPI deficits Impaired working memory
 GDI1 knockout (DAdamo et al, 2002) Impaired short-term memory Diminished social behavior Less aggression
 Cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1) KO (Haller et al, 2005) Decreased PCP-induced locomotion No effect on social interaction
 Complexin I KO (Glynn et al, 2005) Decreased amphetamine-induced locomotion
 Complexin II KO (Yamauchi et al, 2005) Decreased LTP; reduced morris water maze performance only after stress
 Homer1a KO (Szumlinski et al, 2005) Enhanced locomotor behavior to MK-801 and methamphet-amine Disrupted PPI Decreased radial arm maze performance Decreased glutamate release in PFC following cocaine Rx
 Glycine transporter KO (Tsai et al, 2004) Locomotor response to psycho-stimulants same as wild type Reduced sensitivity to amphetamine to disrupt PPI but more MK-801 induced disruption Improves memory retention Increased NMDA receptor expression and function
 GSK-3 beta knockout (Amar et al, 2004) Disrupted PPI correlates with enzyme activity
 mGluR1 knockout (Brody et al, 2003) Disrupted PPI Not reversed by raclopride
 mGluR5 knockout (Kinney et al, 2003; Brody et al, 2004) Disrupted PPI APD not effective
 Proline Dehydrogenase (ProDH) KO (Gogos et al, 1999; Paterlini et al, 2005) Reduced open-field behavior, enhanced response to amphetamine and MK801 Diminished PPI COMT, calcineurin upregulation, reduced D1 and DARPP-32 expression,
 Chromosome 22 deletion (Paylor et al, 2001) Disrupted PPI Impaired cognitive function
 GAP-43 KO (Metz and Schwab, 2004) Hyperactive in open field, reduced anxiety Disrupted PPI
 NCAM-180 KO (Wood et al, 1998) Disrupted PPI, no changes induced by apomorphine Rx Increase lateral ventricle size
 Phosphodiesterase 1B KO (Reed et al, 2002) Enhanced behavioral response to methamphetamine Morris water maze performance impairment Increased DARPP-32 phosphorylation
 Beta-arrestin 2 KO (Beaulieu et al, 2005) Decreased locomotor response to amphetamine Normal DARRPP-32 phosphorylation after amphetamine
 Trace Amine 1 Receptor KO Wolinsky et al, 2006 Enhanced locomotor response to amphetamine Disrupted PPI Increased psychostimulant-induced DA release
 Insulin Receptor KO Zhao et al, 2006 Decreased startle amplitude Decreased insulin receptor and Akt signaling; reduced phosphorylated GSK-3 Clozapine alleviates insulin resistance
 Corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) overexpression (Dirks et al, 2003) Disrupted PPI
 DBA/2 Mouse (Stevens et al, 1998) Disrupted N40 gating & PPI Phenotype reversed by α7-nicotinic receptor agonist
 129S6/SvEv Mouse Koike et al, 2006 Working memory deficit DISC1 mutation
 Apomorphine Susceptible Rat (Ellenbroek and Cools, 2002) Enhanced locomotor response to novel open field Disrupted PPI and diminished latent inhibition
Developmental preparations
 Rat prenatal variable stress (Kinnunen et al, 2003; Koenig et al, 2005) Increased response to amphetamine and PCP with post-pubertal onset Disrupted PPI & N40 Impaired object and social recognition Impaired social interaction present in adolescent and adult rats; reversal by oxytocin; no effect of cross-fostering NMDA, GABAergic and presynaptic protein dysregulation Stress applied during period of fetal brain development that overlaps with period identified in human epidemiological studies
 Mouse Prenatal Viral infections (Fatemi et al, 1999, 2005; Shi et al, 2003) Decreased open-field exploration; Impaired PPI Impaired social interaction Reduced reelin expression in cortex layer 1; reduced cortical thickness; increased pyramidal cell density Clozapine and chlorpromazine increase PPI—hyper-reversal of PPI deficit
 Rodent Prenatal PolyI:C Challenge (GD 9) (Borrell et al, 2002; Shi et al, 2003; Meyer et al, 2005, 2006) No change in total distance traveled in open field but reduced center exploration; increased response to amphetamine Disrupted PPI; latent inhibition changes appear after puberty; no effect of cross-fostering Reduced escape latency in Morris water maze Amphetamine-induced DA release increased; increased hippocampal pyknotic cells Latent inhibition defect reversed by clozapine and haloperidol
 Rat Borna disease virus infection (Solbrig et al, 2000; Pletnikov et al, 2002; Hans et al, 2004) Enhanced novelty-induced locomotor activity in Fisher rats; enhanced amphetamine-induced locomotion Disrupted PPI in Fisher rats Impairs BDNF synaptogenesis; prefrontal cortex thinning
 Rat neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion (Lipska, 2004) Increased response to amphetamine Disrupted PPI Decreased working memory Impaired social interaction Reduced presynaptic protein expression Deficits improved by atypical APD
 Rat antimitotic agent—MAM or AraC (Elmer et al, 2004; Flagstad et al, 2004; Gourevitch et al, 2004) Moore et al, 2006; Featherstone et al, 2007 Enhanced response to amphetamine Disrupted PPI Learning deficits in Morris water maze and object recognition; no change in 5-choice serial reaction time task Decreased social interaction Decreased brain, hippocampus weight; increased neuron density in prefrontal cortex; enhanced NAc DA release to amphetamine
 Rat maternal malnutrition (Palmer et al, 2004) Disrupted PPI that becomes apparent on PND 56 but not PND 35 Striatal NMDA receptor-binding increased without DA change
 Rat prenatal vitamin D insufficiency (Kesby et al, 2006; Eyles et al, 2006) Enhanced response to MK-801 No disruption in PPI Stress reactivity unchanged
 Rat placental insufficiency/birth insults (Boksa, 2004) Enhanced response to amphetamine Reduced DA release in PFC, increased DAT in NAc (basal), decreased DA receptor expression
 Rat isolation rearing (Geyer et al, 1993; Varty and Geyer, 1998; Heidbreder et al, 2000; Weiss et al, 2000) Strain dependent enhancement of amphetamine locomotion Disrupted PPI that is strain dependent Increased amphetamine-induced DA release Raclopride reversed PPI deficit
 Monkey fetal irradiation (Selemon et al, 2005) Mid-gestational irradiation decreases both gray and white matter in frontal cortex
 Rat 24 h maternal deprivation on postnatal day 9 (Ellenbroek et al, 1998) Disrupted PPI, effect develops after puberty Haloperidol reverses PPI deficit
Drug-induced preparations
 Acute NMDA receptor antagonist Rx (MK801, PCP, ketamine) (Jentsch and Roth, 1999) Increases locomotor activity Decreased working memory Impaired social interaction Enhanced locomotor responses blocked by APD
 Chronic NMDA receptor antagonist Rx (MK801, PCP, ketamine) (Jentsch and Roth, 1999; Sams-Dodd, 1999; Lee et al, 2005) Enhanced locomotor response to psychomotor stimulants Disrupted PPI Decreased working memory Impaired social interaction Diminished expression of NMDA receptor coupled IEG, Homer 1a Enhanced locomotor responses blocked by APD, social behavior and PPI impairments blocked by clozapine but not haloperidol
 Basolateral Amygdala Picrotoxin Infusion—Rat (Berretta et al, 2001; Gisabella et al, 2005) GABA antagonism in BLA decreases GAD67 in HPC; GABA antagonism in BLA increases HPC LTP
Lesion models
 Neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion (Lipska and Weinberger, 2000; Lipska, 2004) Enhanced locomotor responses to amphetamine with post-pubertal onset Disrupted PPI Various impairments in learning and memory Impaired social behavior Reduced presynaptic protein and growth factor expression, reduced NMDA receptor expression, impaired DA receptor expression in frontal cortex Locomotor responses blocked by APD, social impairments blocked by clozapine but not haloperidol
 Amygdalar Lesion (Hanlon and Sutherland, 2000; Daenen et al, 2002, 2003; Weiner, 2003) Enhanced amphetamine or apomorphine-induced locomotion Increase acoustic startle response but impair PPI on animals lesioned on PND 7 but not PND 21; abnormally persistent latent inhibition Impaired place navigation & spatial ability Social behaviors diminished in animals lesioned on PND 7 but not 21 but ventral HPC lesions did not affect social behavior Increased lateral ventricular volume
 Prefrontal Cortical Lesion (Miner et al, 1997; Wilkinson et al, 1997; Lipska et al, 1998; Lacroix et al, 2000) Lesion potentiation of amphetamine induced locomotion under high stress conditions only Medial lesions only augment PPI & lesions have no effect on LI