恐惧调节和灭绝对树突脊柱重塑的相反影响
Cora Sau Wan Lai1, Thomas F Franke, Wen-Biao Gan
1Molecular Neurobiology Program, Skirball Institute, Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine, 540 First Avenue, New York, New York 10016, USA.
Nature
|February 21, 2012
概括
恐惧调节消除了树突性棘,而恐惧灭绝则在小鼠前皮层中形成了新的棘. 这些相反的突触变化表明,恐惧记忆可能被部分删除,而不仅仅是抑制.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 突触性可塑性 突触性可塑性
- 记忆研究 记忆研究
背景情况:
- 传统上,恐惧灭绝被视为一种抑制旧记忆的新学习.
- 部分删除恐惧记忆的假设仍在调查中.
- 了解恐惧学习和灭绝期间的突触变化至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究神经电路修改在恐惧学习和灭绝过程中.
- 检查V层金字塔神经元中 postsynaptic树突棘的形成和消除.
- 为了将突触重塑与行为恐惧反应相关联.
主要方法:
- 在小鼠中利用了跨骨双光子显微镜.
- 检查了前额关联皮质中的树突性脊柱动态.
- 配对听觉线索与脚震用于恐惧调节,并单独呈现线索用于灭绝.
主要成果:
- 恐惧调节增加了树突性脊柱的消除.
- 恐惧灭绝增加了树突脊柱的形成.
- 突触变化以提示和位置特定的方式发生,灭绝形成了接近被消除的棘.
- 重新修复优先消除新形成的脊柱.
结论:
- 恐惧的调节和灭绝在个别突触上引起了相反的变化.
- 这些突触修饰与行为恐惧表达和灭绝相关.
- 研究结果表明,恐惧记忆的痕迹在灭绝过程中被部分删除,这挑战了仅抑制模型.
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