| Autor: |
Chen PE; Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. philip.chen@rhul.ac.uk, Errington ML, Kneussel M, Chen G, Annala AJ, Rudhard YH, Rast GF, Specht CG, Tigaret CM, Nassar MA, Morris RG, Bliss TV, Schoepfer R |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) [Learn Mem] 2009 Sep 30; Vol. 16 (10), pp. 635-44. Date of Electronic Publication: 2009 Sep 30 (Print Publication: 2009). |
| DOI: |
10.1101/lm.1316909 |
| Abstrakt: |
The NMDA receptor (NMDAR) subunit GluN1 is an obligatory component of NMDARs without a known functional homolog and is expressed in almost every neuronal cell type. The NMDAR system is a coincidence detector with critical roles in spatial learning and synaptic plasticity. Its coincidence detection property is crucial for the induction of hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP). We have generated a mutant mouse model expressing a hypomorph of the Grin1(N598R) allele, which leads to a minority (about 10%) of coincidence detection-impaired NMDARs. Surprisingly, these animals revealed specific functional changes in the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampal formation. Early LTP was expressed normally in area CA1 in vivo, but was completely suppressed at perforant path-granule cell synapses in the DG. In addition, there was a pronounced reduction in the amplitude of the evoked population spike in the DG. These specific changes were accompanied by behavioral impairments in spatial recognition, spatial learning, reversal learning, and retention. Our data show that minor changes in GluN1-dependent NMDAR physiology can cause dramatic consequences in synaptic signaling in a subregion-specific fashion despite the nonredundant nature of the GluN1 gene and its global expression. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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