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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 367-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.003
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- Amorcage de Jeunes Equipes program of the Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale [AJE201106]
- LabEx MemoLife
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Odormemories are exceptionally robust andessential for animal survival. The olfactory (piriform) cortex has long been hypothesized to encode odor memories, yet the cellular substrates for olfactory learning and memory remain unknown. Here, using intersectional, cFos-based genetic manipulations (Fos tagging''), we show that olfactory fear conditioning activates sparse and distributed ensembles of neurons in the mouse piriform cortex. We demonstrate that chemogenetic silencing of these Fos-tagged piriform ensembles selectively interferes with odor fear memory retrieval but does not compromise basic odor detection and discrimination. Furthermore, chemogenetic reactivation of piriform neurons that were Fos tagged during olfactory fear conditioning causes a decrease in exploratory behavior, mimicking odor-evoked fear memory recall. Together, our experiments identify specific ensembles of piriform neurons as critical components of an olfactory fear memory trace.
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