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HIPPOCAMPUS
卷 15, 期 5, 页码 562-578出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20077
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associative plasticity; excitatory synapse; postnatal development; hippocampus; learning and memory
Sensorimotor systems in altricial animals mature incrementally during early postnatal development, with complex cognitive abilities developing late. Of prominence are cognitive processes that depend on an intact hippocampus, such as contextual-configural learning, allocentric and idiocentric navigation, and certain forms of trace conditioning. The mechanisms that regulate the delayed maturation of the hippocampus are not well understood. However, there is support for the idea that these behaviors come on line with the final maturation of excitatory synaptic transmission. Firsts by providing a timeline for the first behavioral expression of various forms of learning and memory, this study illustrates the late maturation of hippocampal dependent cognitive abilities. Then, functional development of the hippocampus is reviewed to establish the temporal relationship between maturation of excitatory synaptic transmission and the behavioral evidence of adult-like hippocampal processing. These data suggest that, in rats, mechanisms necessary for the expression of adult-like synaptic plasticity become available at around 2 postnatal weeks of age. However, presynaptic plasticity mechanisms, likely necessary for refinement of the hippocampal network, predominate and impede information processing until the third postnatal week. (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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