Journal
HIPPOCAMPUS
Volume 24, Issue 7, Pages 784-793Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22270
Keywords
dentate gyrus; Morris water maze; social recognition; cAMP-responsive element binding protein; NMDA receptor
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- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan
- Sumitomo Foundation, Japan
- Takeda Science Foundation, Japan
- [23300120]
- [20380078]
- [18022038]
- [22022039]
- [24116008]
- [23115716]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23300120, 24650172] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Adult hippocampal neurogenesis has been suggested to play modulatory roles in learning and memory. Importantly, previous studies have shown that newborn neurons in the adult hippocampus are integrated into the dentate gyrus circuit and are recruited more efficiently into the hippocampal memory trace of mice when they become 3 weeks old. Interestingly, a single high-dose treatment with the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonist memantine (MEM) has been shown to increase hippocampal neurogenesis dramatically by promoting cell proliferation. In the present study, to understand the impact of increased adult neurogenesis on memory performance, we examined the effects of a single treatment of MEM on hippocampus-dependent memory in mice. Interestingly, mice treated with MEM showed an improvement of hippocampus-dependent spatial and social recognition memories when they were trained and tested at 3-6 weeks, but not at 3 days or 4 months, after treatment with MEM. Importantly, we observed a significant positive correlation between the scores for spatial memory (probe trial in the Morris water maze task) and the number of young mature neurons (3 weeks old) in MEM-treated mice, but not saline-treated mice. We also observed that the young mature neurons generated by treatment with MEM were recruited into the trace of spatial memory similarly to those generated through endogenous neurogenesis. Taken together, our observations suggest that treatment with MEM temporally improves hippocampus-dependent memory formation and that the newborn neurons increased by treatment with MEM contribute to this improvement when they become 3 weeks old. (c) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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