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Recovering Spatial Information through Reactivation: Brain Oxidative Metabolism Involvement in Males and Females

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NEUROSCIENCE
卷 459, 期 -, 页码 1-15

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2021.02.002

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cytochrome c oxidase; forgetting; reactivation; retrieval; spatial memory

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  1. Secretaria de Estado de Investigacion, Desarrollo e Innovacion del Gobierno de Espana [PSI2017-83893-R, PSI201790806-REDT]
  2. Programa Severo Ochoade Ayudas Predoctorales de la Consejeria de Cultura y Deporte del Principado de Asturias [PA-18-PF-BP17011]

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The study reveals that after reactivating the environmental configuration, spatial memory that has decayed over a period of 45 days can be restored. Male rats show decreased metabolic activity in septal nuclei and thalamic structures, while female rats exhibit reduced metabolism in multiple brain regions, indicating more efficient utilization of these areas when reactivating memories that have decayed over time.
involves a complex network system of interconnected brain areas in which labile trace memories are transformed into enduring ones and reorganized in a time-dependant manner. Although it has been observed that remote memories are less prone to destabilizing, they can become fragile and lead to behavioural decline. We explored the behavioural outcomes of male and female rats in response to the reactivation of a previously acquired allocentric spatial reference memory, under conditions in which animals have shown a retrieval decay. In addition, we assessed their brain metabolic activity through cytochrome c oxidase (CCO) histochemistry. Our results show that a spatial memory amnesia-like behaviour with a time interval of 45 days can be recovered after re-exposure to the environmental configuration with the reinforced contingencies. Moreover, we observed that, following reactivation, male rats reveal a decrease in metabolic activity in septal nuclei and thalamic structures, whereas female rats add a metabolic reduction in the hippocampus, amygdala, mPFC, and retrosplenial, parietal and rhinal cortices, suggesting that they efficiently employ these brain areas when reactivation a memory that has suffered a decay with time. Finally, although male and female rats perform the behavioural task equally, we found sex differences at the brain metabolism level, revealing the differential contribution of brain limbic system energy demands by sex, even when their performance is similar. In conclusion, our work provides behavioural and brain data about remote spatial retrieval and memory reactivation processes. ? 2021 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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