Differential changes in GAP-43 or synaptophysin during appetitive and aversive taste memory formation

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Association between events in time and space is a major mechanism for all animals, including humans, which allows them to learn about the world and potentially change their behavior in the future to adapt to different environments. Conditioning taste aversion (CTA) is a single-trial learning paradigm where animals are trained to avoid a novel flavor which is associated with malaise. Many variables can be analyzed with this model and the circuits involved are well described. Thus, the amygdala and the gustatory cortex (GC) are some of the most relevant structures involved in CTA. In the present study we focused in plastic changes that occur during appetitive and/or aversive taste memory formation. Previous studies have demonstrated that memory consolidation, in hippocampal dependent paradigms, induces plastic changes like increase in the concentration of proteins considered as markers of neuronal plasticity, such as the growth associated protein 43 (GAP-43) and synaptophysin (SYN). In the present experiment in male rats we evaluated changes in GAP-43 and SYN expression, using immunofluorescence, induce by the formation of aversive and appetitive taste memory. We found that taste aversive memory formation can induce an increase in GAP-43 in the granular layer of the GC. Furthermore, we also found an increase in SYN expression in both layers of the GC, the basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the central amygdala (CeA). These results suggest that aversive memory representation induces a new circuitry (inferred from an increase in GAP 43). On the other hand, an appetitive taste learning increased SYN expression in the GC (both layers), the BLA and the CeA without any changes in GAP 43. Together these results indicate that aversive memory formation induces structural and synaptic changes, while appetitive memory formation induces synaptic changes; suggesting that aversive and appetitive memories require a different set of cortical and amygdala plastic changes.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:397

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Behavioural brain research - 397(2021) vom: 15. Jan., Seite 112937

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Grijalva, Lucia E [VerfasserIn]
Miranda, María I [VerfasserIn]
Paredes, Raúl G [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Appetitive
Aversive
Conditioned taste aversion (CTA)
GAP-43 Protein
Journal Article
Memory
Plasticity
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Synaptophysin
Syp protein, rat

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Date Completed 15.11.2021

Date Revised 15.11.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112937

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315625104