Abstract
Old (26 months) and young (6 months) male Wistar rats were treated chronically for 2 weeks with ORG 2766 or with vehicle, delivered via subcutaneously implanted minipumps (0.5 μg peptide/0.5 μl/h). Learning of a spatial task was not impaired in the old animals, except for one measure, i.e. the latency to find the goal ☐. In neither age group did ORG 2766 influence behavioral performance. The number of corticosterone receptor sites was decreased in the hippocampus of senescent rats, but restored to the level observed in young rats following ORG 2766 treatment. It is concluded that the number of hippocampal corticosterone receptor sites is a sensitive index of brain aging and effectiveness of ORG 2766.
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