Journal
CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 472-481Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht245
Keywords
brain circuits; encoding; glutamate receptors; plasticity; retrieval
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E010407]
- Research Councils UK
- BBSRC [BB/E010407/1, BB/L02134X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/L02134X/1, BB/E010407/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Object-in-place associative recognition memory depends on an interaction between the hippocampus (HPC), perirhinal (PRH), and medial prefrontal (mPFC) cortices, yet the contribution of glutamate receptor neurotransmission to these interactions is unknown. NMDA receptors (NMDAR) in the HPC were critical for encoding of object-in-place memory but not for single-item object recognition. Next, a disconnection procedure was used to examine the importance of concurrent glutamate neurotransmission in the HPC-mPFC and HPC-PRH. Contralateral unilateral infusions of NBQX (AMPAR antagonist), into the HPC-mPFC, or HPC-PRH, either before acquisition or test, impaired object-in-place performance. Thus, both circuits are necessary for encoding and retrieval. Crossed unilateral AP5 (NMDAR antagonist) infusions into the HPC-mPFC or HPC-PRH impaired encoding, but not retrieval. Specifically crossed HPC-mPFC infusions impaired both short-term (5 min) and longer term (1 h) memory while HPC-PRH infusions impaired longer term memory only. This delay-dependent effect of AP5 in the HPC-PRH on object-in-place memory, accords with its effects in the PRH, on single item object recognition memory, thereby suggesting that a single PRH synaptic plasticity mechanism underpins different recognition memory processes. Further, blocking excitatory neurotransmission in any pair of structures within the networks impaired both encoding and retrieval, thus object-in-place memory clearly requires network interdependency across multiple structures.
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