Foreground Contextual Fear Memory Consolidation Requires Two Independent Phases of Hippocampal ERK/CREB Activation

Autor/inn/en	Trifilieff, Pierre; Vanhoutte, Peter; Caboche, Jocelyne; Desmedt, Aline; Riedel, Gernot; Mons, Nicole; Micheau, Jacques; Herry, Cyril
Titel	Foreground Contextual Fear Memory Consolidation Requires Two Independent Phases of Hippocampal ERK/CREB Activation
Quelle	In: Learning & Memory, 13 (2006) 3, S.349-358 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-0502
DOI	10.1101/lm.80206
Schlagwörter	Conditioning; Memory; Physiology; Learning Processes; Animals; Diagnostic Tests; Cytology; Neurological Organization; Fear + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Physiologie; Learning process; Lernprozess; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Zytologie; Furcht
Abstract	Fear conditioning is a popular model for investigating physiological and cellular mechanisms of memory formation. In this paradigm, a footshock is either systematically associated to a tone (paired conditioning) or is pseudorandomly distributed (unpaired conditioning). In the former procedure, the tone/shock association is acquired, whereas in the latter procedure, the context/shock association will prevail. Animals with chronically implanted recording electrodes show enhanced amplitude of the extracellularly recorded field EPSP in CA1 pyramidal cells for up to 24 h after unpaired, but not paired, fear conditioning. This is paralleled by a differential activation of the ERK/CREB pathway in CA1, which is monophasic in paired conditioning (0-15 min post-conditioning), but biphasic (0-1 h and 9-12 h post-conditioning) in unpaired conditioning as revealed by immunocytochemistry and Western blotting. Intrahippocampal injection of the MEK inhibitor U0126 prior to each phase prevents the activation of both ERK1/2 and CREB after unpaired conditioning. Block of any activation phase leads to memory impairment. We finally reveal that the biphasic activation of ERK/CREB activity is independently regulated, yet both phases are critically required for the consolidation of long-term memories following unpaired fear conditioning. These data provide compelling evidence that CA1 serves different forms of memory by expressing differential cellular mechanisms that are dependent on the training regime. (Contains 5 figures.) (Author).
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