期刊
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
卷 14, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.809879
关键词
cognitive aging; memory consolidation; proximal and distal hippocampus; immediate early genes; in situ hybridization; behavioral tagging; trisynaptic circuit
资金
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/M025128/1]
- Alzheimer's Research UK (ARUK)
- BBSRC [BB/M025128/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The study found that in young rats, neuronal assemblies activated by memory encoding were also partially activated by novelty, especially in the distal CA1 and proximal CA3 subregions. In early aging, both encoding- and novelty-triggered neuronal populations were significantly reduced, with a more profound effect in encoding neurons.
The ability to maintain relevant information on a daily basis is negatively impacted by aging. However, the neuronal mechanism manifesting memory persistence in young animals and memory decline in early aging is not fully understood. A novel event, when introduced around encoding of an everyday memory task, can facilitate memory persistence in young age but not in early aging. Here, we investigated in male rats how sub-regions of the hippocampus are involved in memory representation in behavioral tagging and how early aging affects such representation by combining behavioral training in appetitive delayed-matching-to-place tasks with the cellular compartment analysis of temporal activity by fluorescence in situ hybridization technique. We show that neuronal assemblies activated by memory encoding were also partially activated by novelty, particularly in the distal CA1 and proximal CA3 subregions in young male rats. In early aging, both encoding- and novelty-triggered neuronal populations were significantly reduced with a more profound effect in encoding neurons. Thus, memory persistence through novelty facilitation engages overlapping hippocampal assemblies as a key cellular signature, and cognitive aging is associated with underlying reduction in neuronal activation.
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