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Long-Lasting Input-Specific Experience-Dependent Changes of Hippocampus Synaptic Function Measured in the Anesthetized Rat

Eliott R. J. Levy, Kally C. O’Reilly and André A. Fenton
eNeuro 21 August 2019, 6 (5) ENEURO.0506-18.2019; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0506-18.2019
Eliott R. J. Levy
1Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003
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Kally C. O’Reilly
1Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003
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André A. Fenton
1Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003
2 Neuroscience Institute at the New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY 10016
3Department of Physiology, the Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203
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How experience causes long-lasting changes in the brain is a central question in neuroscience. The common view is that synaptic function is altered by experience to change brain circuit functions that underlie conditioned behavior. We examined hippocampus synaptic circuit function in vivo, in three groups of animals, to assess the impact of experience on hippocampus function in rats. The “conditioned” group acquired a shock-conditioned place response during a cognitively-challenging, hippocampus synaptic plasticity-dependent task. The no-shock group had similar exposure to the environmental conditions but no conditioning. The home-cage group was experimentally naive. After the one-week retention test, under anesthesia, we stimulated the perforant path inputs to CA1, which terminate in stratum lacunosum moleculare (slm), and to the dentate gyrus (DG), which terminate in the molecular layer. We find synaptic compartment specific changes that differ amongst the groups. The evoked field EPSP (fEPSP) and pre-spike field response are enhanced only at the DG input layer and only in conditioned animals. The DG responses, measured by the population spiking activity and post-spike responses, are enhanced in both the conditioned and no-shock groups compared to home-cage animals. These changes are pathway specific because no differences are observed in slm of CA1. These findings demonstrate long-term, experience-dependent, pathway-specific alterations to synaptic circuit function of the hippocampus.

  • active place avoidance
  • conditioning
  • experience
  • hippocampus
  • memory
  • synaptic circuit function

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  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants R01MH099128 and R01MH115304.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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eNeuro 21 August 2019, 6 (5) ENEURO.0506-18.2019; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0506-18.2019

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eNeuro 21 August 2019, 6 (5) ENEURO.0506-18.2019; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0506-18.2019
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