Antsiferova, A.A.; Kopaeva, M.Y.; Loginova, M.A.; Kashkarov, P.K. Effects of Silver Citrate Prolonged Exposure on Behavioral and Cognitive Functions of Mice. Preprints2023, 2023101703. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1703.v1
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Antsiferova, A.A., Kopaeva, M.Y., Loginova, M.A., & Kashkarov, P.K. (2023). Effects of Silver Citrate Prolonged Exposure on Behavioral and Cognitive Functions of Mice. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1703.v1
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Antsiferova, A.A., Maria A. Loginova and Pavel K. Kashkarov. 2023 "Effects of Silver Citrate Prolonged Exposure on Behavioral and Cognitive Functions of Mice" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1703.v1
Abstract
Pure silver as well as silver compounds have been used as antiseptics for centuries. Nowadays, the most frequently applied form of silver is a nanoparticle form. Several studies demonstrate the ability of silver nanoparticles and silver salts to accumulate in the brain of laboratory ani-mals as well as the ability of silver nanoparticles to influence behavioral and cognitive functions of laboratory mammals. For the first time, the influence of a silver salt, in particular, silver citrate on the change dynamics of behavioral and cognitive functions of laboratory mice at the daily oral exposure during 30, 60, 120 and 180 days is investigated in the present research. We observed the anxiety increase after 30 days of the exposure as well as the ability of mice to adapt to the prolonged oral exposure of silver citrate manifested in the anxiety decrease, increase of locomotor activity and the tendency of long-term contextual memory improvement. Increase of locomotor activity and memory improvement might be associated with the sensitivity increase and regarded as compensatory mechanism to anxiety increase. The observed phenomenon is classified as a hormetic effect. A comparison with the analogous study implemented polyvi-nylpyrrolidone coated silver nanoparticles is carried out. It was concluded that the nanoform is more neurotoxic.
Medicine and Pharmacology, Medicine and Pharmacology
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