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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages 31-41Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.02.023
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Memory consolidation; Reconsolidation; Memory modulation; Normal aging; Reward learning
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [NIG BB/M025128/1, IPA BB/P025315/1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/P025315/1, BB/M025128/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/P025315/1, BB/M025128/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Decline in cognitive functions, including hippocampus-dependent spatial memory, is commonly observed at a later stage of aging (e.g., > 20 months old in rodents) and typically studied after a discrete learning event. How normal aging, particularly at an early stage, affects the modulatory aspect of memory persistence is underinvestigated. Previous studies in young animals show that weak, fading memories can last longer if a modulating event, such as spatial novelty, is introduced around memory encoding. This is known as behavioral tagging and capture (BTC). Here, we investigated how early aging (10-13 months old) affects BTC in an appetitive delayed-matching-to-place task. We trained rats when they were young and middle aged and found that novelty facilitated long-term memory persistence in young but not in middle-aged rats. However, re-exposure to the encoded environment after learning improved memory persistence in middle-aged rats. BTC, combined with memory reactivation, facilitated memory persistence through reconsolidation. Our results point toward a weakened tagging and capture mechanism before reduction of plasticity-related proteins at an early stage of aging. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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