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Effect of the dietary alpha-linolenate/linoleate balance on lipid compositions and learning ability of rats. II. Discrimination process, extinction process, and glycolipid compositions

N Yamamoto, A Hashimoto, Y Takemoto, H Okuyama, M Nomura, R Kitajima, T Togashi and Y Tamai
Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Japan.

Donryu strain rats through two generations were fed semi-purified diets supplemented with safflower seed oil (rich in linoleic acid) or with perilla seed oil (rich in alpha-linolenic acid), or a conventional laboratory chow (normal control diet). Brightness-discrimination learning ability was determined to be the highest in the perilla oil- fed group, followed by the normal group, and then by the safflower group, extending our earlier observation in a different strain of rat that alpha-linolenic acid is a factor in maintaining high learning ability (Yamamoto, N., M. Saitoh, A. Moriuchi, M. Nomura, and H. Okuyama. 1987. J. Lipid Res. 28: 144-151). After the brightness- discrimination learning test was administered, extinction of learning was measured. The time required for extinction was significantly longer in the safflower group than in either the perilla group or the normal diet group. Thus, the dietary alpha-linolenate/linoleate balance affected both the learning and the extinction of learning. The glycolipids of the cerebrum, cerebellum, and olfactory lobe were analyzed. Although the fatty acid compositions of the sulfatide and gangliosides were significantly different in the three parts of the brain, relatively little difference was observed in the fatty acids of glycolipids between the safflower group and the perilla group, suggesting that gross changes in brain glycolipids are not responsible for the differences in learning abilities between these dietary groups.
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