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v Abstract  Early protein malnutrition induces structural, neurochemical and functional changes in the Central Nervous System leading to alterations in cognitive and behavioral development of rats such as spatial learning and memory. The aim of this work was to investigate the effects of postnatal protein malnutrition on learning and memory tasks. This evaluation was done by comparing the performance of previously malnourished male Wistar rats (6% protein) from birth to 49 days of age with well-nourished control animals (16% protein) in three experiments: working memory tasks in the Morris water maze (Experiment I) at 70 days of age (phase 1) and six months later (phase 2), recognition memory of objects in the open field (Experiment II) with two types of intervals (3 and 24) between the trials, and working memory in the water T-maze (Experiment III) with two types of intervals between trials (10 and 30 s). The results showed that the escape latency in malnourished animals in experiment I was significantly higher than escape latency in controls. On phase 2, this difference disappeared. In Experiment II, recognition indexes of malnourished groups were significantly higher in both 3-h and 24-h intervals. In Experiment III, there was a difference only in the type of interval, as the animals took longer to achieve the criteria in the 30-s interval. These results suggest that protein malnutrition caused impairments on the working memory in the Morris water maze, but these deficits disappeared after nutritional recovery. Recognition memory was impaired by postnatal malnutrition independently of the type of interval. Working memory in the water T-maze was not affected by postnatal protein

Efeitos da desnutrição protéica pós-natal no desempenho de ratos em diferentes tarefas de aprendizagem e memória