Specific protein changes during memory acquisition and storage

Nelson, Thomas; Alkon, Daniel L.

doi:10.1002/bies.950100209

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“…During acquisition of a light-rotation association (behaviorally indexed by reduced phototaxis and foot contraction in the presence of light), the B photoreceptors of the Hermissenda's eye undergo a transient, depolarization-induced rise in levels of intracellular Ca2+ (Connor and Alkon, 1984). This increase in free Ca2+ results in phosphorylation of specific proteins (e.g., 20 kDa) in these cells (Neary et al, 198 1;Nelson and Alkon, 1989) that have been related to the inactivation of a fast, voltage-dependent K+ current (IA) and a slower, Ca*+-dependent K+ current (I,). Reduction of these currents decreases conductance across the photoreceptor's membrane and thereby increases the cell's resistance to current and, hence, its excitability, which is thought to bias the neural network toward new behavioral responses.…”

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Regulation of short-term associative memory by calcium-dependent protein kinase

Lederhendler

Alkon

1990

J. Neurosci.

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Neural and behavioral correlates of an associative memory in Hermissenda were examined during induction and/or formation of the memory. Hermissenda received either light (conditioned stimulus or CS) and rotation (unconditioned stimulus or US) paired (i.e., Pavlovian conditioning), light and rotation unpaired (pseudoconditioning), or no exposure to light and rotation. Following 9 pairings in a 6 min session, conditioned animals exhibited a contraction of the foot in response to a test CS presented 2 min after the last conditioning trial, whereas pseudoconditioned and untreated animals exhibited a foot extension to the same CS. In addition, both an associative and a nonassociative reduction in light-induced locomotion was observed. To examine neural correlates of this learning within minutes of acquisition, the isolated nervous system of the Hermissenda (containing the visual and vestibular organs) was trained with stimulus conditions identical to those used for the intact animal. Prior isolation and preparation of the nervous system permitted immediate intracellular recording following the final conditioning trial. Relative to pseudoconditioned and untreated animals, the B photoreceptors in conditioned nervous systems were found to have elevated input resistance (inversely related to K+ channel conductance and positively related to excitability) and exhibited increased steady-state depolarization in response to the light CS, as well as a prolonged depolarization after the CS offset. These neural correlates of the associative memory were attenuated if the protein kinase inhibitor H7 was present in the extracellular bath during conditioning, demonstrating in the reduced preparation that antagonism of protein kinase activity blocks the induction of membrane alterations of identified neurons that correlate with memory storage.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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