Differential Involvement of Hippocampal Calcineurin during Learning and Reversal Learning in a Y-Maze Task

Autor/inn/en	Havekes, Robbert; Nijholt, Ingrid M.; Luiten, Paul G. M.; Van der Zee, Eddy A.
Titel	Differential Involvement of Hippocampal Calcineurin during Learning and Reversal Learning in a Y-Maze Task
Quelle	In: Learning & Memory, 13 (2006) 6, S.753-759 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-0502
Schlagwörter	Memory; Biochemistry; Learning Processes; Training; Brain; Animals; Task Analysis; Cytology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Biochemie; Learning process; Lernprozess; Ausbildung; Gehirn; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Aufgabenanalyse; Zytologie
Abstract	The regulation and function of the calcium-dependent phosphatase calcineurin (CaN, protein phosphatase 2B) in learning and memory remain unclear, although recent work indicates that CaN may play a differential role in training and reversal training. To gain more insight into the involvement of CaN in these two types of learning, hippocampal CaN activity, protein levels, and expression patterns were studied in mice subjected to a reference memory version of the Y-maze task. We show that (1) training but not habituation induces a decrease in cytosolic CaN activity, (2) the recovery of cytosolic CaN activity is reversal training specific and does not reflect normal restoration of basal levels unrelated to subsequent learning, (3) cytosolic protein levels for the catalytic subunit of CaN (CaNA) are decreased at the early phase of training, but not at the early phase of reversal training, (4) CaNA immunoreactivity in the dorsal hippocampus is enhanced in the CA1 and CA3 area (but not in the dentate gyrus [DG] or subiculum [SUB]) only during reversal training. These findings indicate that memory formation is accompanied by reduced CaN activity, whereas adapting to changes in a familiar environment is accompanied by restored CaN activity. Moreover, reversal training selectively affects hippocampal CA3 and CA1 regions, suggesting a specific function of these hippocampal subregions in reversal learning. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10