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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 33, Issue 15, Pages 6423-U509Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5107-12.2013
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31130026, 31070991]
- National 973 Basic Research Program of China [2012CB911000, 2010CB912004]
- State Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Innovative Research Group [81021001]
- Foundation for Excellent Young Scientists of Shandong Province [BS2011SW021]
- Independent Innovation Foundation of Shandong University
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Actin dynamics provide an important mechanism for the modification of synaptic plasticity, which is regulated by the actin depolymerizing factor (ADF)/cofilin. However, the role of cofilin regulated actin dynamics in memory extinction process is still unclear. Here, we observed that extinction of conditioned taste aversive (CTA) memory led to temporally enhanced ADF/cofilin activity in the infralimbic cortex (IrL) of the rats. Moreover, temporally elevating ADF/cofilin activity in the IrL could accelerate CTA memory extinction by facilitating AMPAR synaptic surface recruitment, whereas inhibition of ADF/cofilin activity abolished AMPAR synaptic surface trafficking and impaired memory extinction. Finally, we observed that ADF/cofilin-regulated synaptic plasticity was not directly coupled to morphological changes of postsynaptic spines. These findings may help us understand the role of ADF/cofilin-regulated actin dynamics in memory extinction and suggest that appropriate manipulating ADF/cofilin activity might be a suitable way for therapeutic treatment of memory disorders.
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