期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 38, 期 37, 页码 7935-7951出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0801-18.2018
关键词
estrogen; estrogen receptor alpha; long-term potentiation; LTP; object location memory; TrkB
资金
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [NS-045260, NS-085709, MH-101491]
- Merit Review Award Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs [1I01BX002316]
- University of California, Irvine, Center for Autism Research and Translation
Men are generally superior to women in remembering spatial relationships, whereas the reverse holds for semantic information, but the neurobiological bases for these differences are not understood. Here we describe striking sexual dimorphism in synaptic mechanisms of memory encoding in hippocampal field CA1, a region critical for spatial learning. Studies of acute hippocampal slices from adult rats and mice show that for excitatory Schaffer-commissural projections, the memory-related long-term potentiation (LTP) effect depends upon endogenous estrogen and membrane estrogen receptor alpha (ER alpha) in females but not in males; there was no evident involvement of nuclear ER alpha in females, or of ER beta or GPER1 (G-protein-coupled estrogen receptor 1) in either sex. Quantitative immunofluorescence showed that stimulation-induced activation of two LTP-related kinases (Src, ERK1/2), and of postsynaptic TrkB, required ER alpha in females only, and that postsynaptic ER alpha levels are higher in females than in males. Several downstream signaling events involved in LTP were comparable between the sexes. In contrast to endogenous estrogen effects, infused estradiol facilitated LTP and synaptic signaling in females via both ER alpha and ER beta. The estrogen dependence of LTP in females was associated with a higher threshold for both inducing potentiation and acquiring spatial information. These results indicate that the observed sexual dimorphism in hippocampal LTP reflects differences in synaptic kinase activation, including both a weaker association with NMDA receptors and a greater ER alpha-mediated kinase activation in response to locally produced estrogen in females. We propose that male/female differences in mechanisms and threshold for field CA1 LTP contribute to differences in encoding specific types of memories.
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