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Chitadze L, Meparishvili M, Lagani V, Khuchua Z, McCabe BJ, Solomonia R. Src-NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 complex and recognition memory of imprinting in domestic chicks. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0297166. [PMID: 38285689 PMCID: PMC10824410 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
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Src is a non-receptor tyrosine kinase participating in a range of neuronal processes, including synaptic plasticity. We have recently shown that the amounts of total Src and its two phosphorylated forms, at tyrosine-416 (activated) and tyrosine-527 (inhibited), undergoes time-dependent, region-specific learning-related changes in the domestic chick forebrain after visual imprinting. These changes occur in the intermediate medial mesopallium (IMM), a site of memory formation for visual imprinting, but not the posterior pole of the nidopallium (PPN), a control brain region not involved in imprinting. Src interacts with mitochondrial genome-coded NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 (NADH2), a component of mitochondrial respiratory complex I. This interaction occurs at brain excitatory synapses bearing NMDA glutamate receptors. The involvement of Src-NADH2 complexes in learning and memory is not yet explored. We show for the first time that, independently of changes in total Src or total NADH2, NADH2 bound to Src immunoprecipitated from the P2 plasma membrane-mitochondrial fraction: (i) is increased in a learning-related manner in the left IMM 1 h after the end of training; (ii), is decreased in the right IMM in a learning-related way 24 h after training. These changes occurred in the IMM but not the PPN. They are attributable to learning occurring during training rather than a predisposition to learn. Learning-related changes in Src-bound NADH2 are thus time- and region-dependent.
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- Lela Chitadze
- Institute of Chemical Biology, School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology, School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology, School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology, School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Chemical Biology, School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Iv. Beritashvili Centre of Experimental Biomedicine, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Meparishvili M, Chitadze L, Lagani V, McCabe B, Solomonia R. Src and Memory: A Study of Filial Imprinting and Predispositions in the Domestic Chick. Front Physiol 2021; 12:736999. [PMID: 34616310 PMCID: PMC8488273 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.736999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Visual imprinting is a learning process whereby young animals come to prefer a visual stimulus after exposure to it (training). The available evidence indicates that the intermediate medial mesopallium (IMM) in the domestic chick forebrain is a site of memory formation during visual imprinting. We have studied the role of Src, an important non-receptor tyrosine kinase, in memory formation. Amounts of total Src (Total-Src) and its two phosphorylated forms, tyrosine-416 (activated, 416P-Src) and tyrosine-527 (inhibited, 527P-Src), were measured 1 and 24 h after training in the IMM and in a control brain region, the posterior pole of nidopallium (PPN). One hour after training, in the left IMM, we observed a positive correlation between the amount of 527P-Src and learning strength that was attributable to learning, and there was also a positive correlation between 416P-Src and learning strength that was attributable to a predisposition to learn readily. Twenty-four hours after training, the amount of Total-Src increased with learning strength in both the left and right IMM, and amount of 527P-Src increased with learning strength only in the left IMM; both correlations were attributable to learning. A further, negative, correlation between learning strength and 416P-Src/Total-Src in the left IMM reflected a predisposition to learn. No learning-related changes were found in the PPN control region. We suggest that there are two pools of Src; one of them in an active state and reflecting a predisposition to learn, and the second one in an inhibited condition, which increases as a result of learning. These two pools may represent two or more signaling pathways, namely, one pathway downstream of Src activated by tyrosine-416 phosphorylation and another upstream of Src, keeping the enzyme in an inactivated state via phosphorylation of tyrosine-527.
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- Maia Meparishvili
- School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.,I. Beritashvili Centre of Experimental Biomedicine, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Visual imprinting is a learning process whereby young animals come to prefer a visual stimulus after exposure to it (training). The intermediate medial mesopallium in the domestic chick forebrain is critical for visual imprinting and contributes to molecular regulation of memory formation. Criteria used to infer that a change following training is learning-related have been formulated and published. Cognin (protein disulphide isomerase) is one of several identified plasma membrane and mitochondrial proteins that are upregulated in a learning-related way 24 hours after training. Since virtually nothing is known about the cognin interactome, we have used immunoaffinity chromatography and mass spectrometry to identify proteins that interact with cognin in the cytoplasmic and plasma membrane-mitochondrial fractions. As the learning-related upregulation of cognin has been shown to occur in the plasma membrane-mitochondrial fraction and not in the cytoplasmic fraction, we studied the effect of training on three cognin-interacting partners in the plasma membrane-mitochondrial fraction: the b5 subunit of mitochondrial ATP synthase and the alpha-2 and alpha-3 subunits of sodium-potassium ATPase. Learning-related upregulation was found in the left intermediate medial mesopallium 24 hours after training for the b5 subunit of mitochondrial ATP synthase and the alpha-2 subunit of sodium-potassium ATPase. The hemispheric asymmetry revealed here is consistent with the predominance of many other learning-related effects in the left intermediate medial mesopallium. The alpha-2 subunit of sodium-potassium ATPase is mainly expressed in astrocytes, supporting a role for these glial cells in memory.
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McCabe BJ. Visual Imprinting in Birds: Behavior, Models, and Neural Mechanisms. Front Physiol 2019; 10:658. [PMID: 31231236 PMCID: PMC6558373 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Accepted: 05/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Filial imprinting is a process, readily observed in precocial birds, whereby a social attachment is established between a young animal and an object that is typically (although not necessarily) a parent. During a perinatal sensitive period, the young animal learns characteristics of the object (the imprinting stimulus) simply by being exposed to it and will subsequently recognize and selectively approach this stimulus. Imprinting can thus establish a filial bond with an individual adult: a form of social cohesion that may be crucial for survival. Behavioral predispositions can act together with the learning process of imprinting in the formation, maintenance, and modification of the filial bond. Memory of the imprinting stimulus, as well as being necessary for social recognition, is also used adaptively in perceptual classification of sensory signals. Abstract features of an imprinting stimulus, such as similarity or difference between stimulus components, can also be recognized. Studies of domestic chicks have elucidated the neural basis of much of the above behavior. This article discusses (1) principal behavioral characteristics of filial imprinting and related predispositions, (2) theoretical models that have been developed to account for this behavior, and (3) physiological results elucidating the underlying neural mechanisms. Interactions between these different levels of analysis have resulted in advancement of all of them. Taken together, the different approaches have helped define strategies for investigating mechanisms of learning, memory, and perception.
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- Brian J McCabe
- Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Tsai SF, Chang CY, Yong SM, Lim AL, Nakao Y, Chen SJ, Kuo YM. A Hydrolyzed Chicken Extract CMI-168 Enhances Learning and Memory in Middle-Aged Mice. Nutrients 2018; 11:E27. [PMID: 30583503 PMCID: PMC6356702 DOI: 10.3390/nu11010027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Revised: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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There has been increasing evidence that consumption of dietary supplements or specific nutrients can influence cognitive processes and emotions. A proprietary chicken meat extraction, Chicken Meat Ingredient-168 (CMI-168), has previously been shown to enhance cognitive function in humans. However, the mechanism underlying the CMI-168-induced benefits remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the effects of CMI-168 on hippocampal neuroplasticity and memory function in middle-aged (9⁻12 months old) mice. The mice in the test group (termed the "CMI-168 group") were fed dietary pellets produced by mixing CMI-168 and normal laboratory mouse chow to provide a daily CMI-168 dose of 150 mg/kg of body weight for 6 weeks. The control mice (termed the "Chow group") were fed normal laboratory mouse chow pellets. CMI-168 supplementation did not affect the body weight gain, food intake, or exploratory behavior of the mice. In the novel object recognition test, the CMI-168 group showed better hippocampus-related non-spatial memory compared to the control Chow group. However, spatial memory examined by the Morris Water Maze test was similar between the two groups. There was also no significant difference in the induction and maintenance of long-term potentiation and dendritic complexity of the hippocampal cornu ammonis region 1 (CA1) neurons, as well as the levels of neuroplasticity-related proteins in the hippocampi of the CMI-168 and Chow groups. Interestingly, we observed that CMI-168 appeared to protect the mice against stress-induced weight loss. In conclusion, dietary supplementation of CMI-168 was found to improve learning and memory in middle-aged mice, independent of structural or functional changes in the hippocampus. The resilience to stress afforded by CMI-168 warrants further investigation.
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- Sheng-Feng Tsai
- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.
- College of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan.
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- Advanced Optoelectronic Technology Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.
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- Scientific Research and Applications, BRAND'S Suntory, Singapore 048423, Singapore.
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- Scientific Research and Applications, BRAND'S Suntory, Singapore 048423, Singapore.
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- Scientific Research and Applications, BRAND'S Suntory, Singapore 048423, Singapore.
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- College of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.
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Margvelani G, Meparishvili M, Kiguradze T, McCabe BJ, Solomonia R. Micro-RNAs, their target proteins, predispositions and the memory of filial imprinting. Sci Rep 2018; 8:17444. [PMID: 30487553 PMCID: PMC6262022 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35097-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2018] [Accepted: 10/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Visual imprinting is a learning process whereby young animals come to prefer a visual stimulus after exposure to it (training). The intermediate medial mesopallium (IMM) in the domestic chick forebrain is critical for visual imprinting and contributes to molecular regulation of memory formation. We investigated the role of micro-RNAs (miRNAs) in such regulation. Twenty-four hours after training, miRNA spectra in the left IMM were compared between chicks with high preference scores (strong memory for imprinting stimulus), and chicks with low preference scores (weak memory for imprinting stimulus). Using criteria of significance and expression level, we chose gga-miR-130b-3p for further study and found that down-regulation correlated with learning strength. No effect was detected in posterior nidopallium, a region not involved in imprinting. We studied two targets of gga-miR-130b-3p, cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding proteins 1 (CPEB-1) and 3 (CPEB-3), in two subcellular fractions (P2 membrane-mitochondrial and cytoplasmic) of IMM and posterior nidopallium. Only in the left IMM was a learning-related effect observed, in membrane CPEB-3. Variances from the regression with preference score and untrained chicks suggest that, in the IMM, gga-miR-130b-3p level reflects a predisposition, i.e. capacity to learn, whereas P2 membrane-mitochondrial CPEB-3 is up-regulated in a learning-specific way.
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- Giorgi Margvelani
- Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.,I. Beritashvili Centre of Experimental Biomedicine, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- I. Beritashvili Centre of Experimental Biomedicine, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. .,I. Beritashvili Centre of Experimental Biomedicine, Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Meparishvili M, Nozadze M, Margvelani G, McCabe BJ, Solomonia RO. A Proteomic Study of Memory After Imprinting in the Domestic Chick. Front Behav Neurosci 2015; 9:319. [PMID: 26635566 PMCID: PMC4660867 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 11/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The intermediate and medial mesopallium (IMM) of the domestic chick forebrain has previously been shown to be a memory system for visual imprinting. Learning-related changes occur in certain plasma membrane and mitochondrial proteins in the IMM. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis/mass spectrometry has been employed to identify more comprehensively learning-related expression of proteins in the membrane-mitochondrial fraction of the IMM 24 h after training. We inquired whether amounts of these proteins in the IMM and a control region (posterior pole of the nidopallium, PPN) are correlated with a behavioral estimate of memory for the imprinting stimulus. Learning-related increases in amounts of the following proteins were found in the left IMM, but not the right IMM or the left or right PPN: (i) membrane cognin; (ii) a protein resembling the P32 subunit of splicing factor SF2; (iii) voltage-dependent anionic channel-1; (iv) dynamin-1; (v) heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A2/B1. Learning-related increases in some transcription factors involved in mitochondrial biogenesis were also found, without significant change in mitochondrial DNA copy number. The results indicate that the molecular processes involved in learning and memory underlying imprinting include protein stabilization, increased mRNA trafficking, synaptic vesicle recycling, and specific changes in the mitochondrial proteome.
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- Maia Meparishvili
- School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University Tbilisi, Georgia
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- School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University Tbilisi, Georgia ; I. Beritashvili Institute of Experimental Biomedicine Tbilisi, Georgia
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- School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Zoology, Sub-Department of Animal Behavior, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK
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- School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University Tbilisi, Georgia ; I. Beritashvili Institute of Experimental Biomedicine Tbilisi, Georgia
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Solomonia RO, McCabe BJ. Molecular mechanisms of memory in imprinting. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2015; 50:56-69. [PMID: 25280906 PMCID: PMC4726915 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2014] [Revised: 09/20/2014] [Accepted: 09/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Converging evidence implicates the intermediate and medial mesopallium (IMM) of the domestic chick forebrain in memory for a visual imprinting stimulus. During and after imprinting training, neuronal responsiveness in the IMM to the familiar stimulus exhibits a distinct temporal profile, suggesting several memory phases. We discuss the temporal progression of learning-related biochemical changes in the IMM, relative to the start of this electrophysiological profile. c-fos gene expression increases <15 min after training onset, followed by a learning-related increase in Fos expression, in neurons immunopositive for GABA, taurine and parvalbumin (not calbindin). Approximately simultaneously or shortly after, there are increases in phosphorylation level of glutamate (AMPA) receptor subunits and in releasable neurotransmitter pools of GABA and taurine. Later, the mean area of spine synapse post-synaptic densities, N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor number and phosphorylation level of further synaptic proteins are elevated. After ∼ 15 h, learning-related changes in amounts of several synaptic proteins are observed. The results indicate progression from transient/labile to trophic synaptic modification, culminating in stable recognition memory.
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- Revaz O Solomonia
- Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University, 3/5 K Cholokashvili Av, Tbilisi 0162, Georgia; I. Beritashvili Centre of Experimental Biomedicine, Tbilisi, Georgia.
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- University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley, Cambridge CB23 8AA, United Kingdom.
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Moorman S, Nicol AU. Memory-related brain lateralisation in birds and humans. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2015; 50:86-102. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Revised: 07/03/2014] [Accepted: 07/05/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In search of a recognition memory engram. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2014; 50:12-28. [PMID: 25280908 PMCID: PMC4382520 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2014] [Revised: 09/18/2014] [Accepted: 09/22/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The role of the perirhinal cortex in familiarity discrimination is reviewed. Behavioural, pharmacological and electrophysiological evidence is considered. The cortex is found to be essential for memory acquisition, retrieval and storage. The evidence indicates that perirhinal synaptic weakening is critically involved.
A large body of data from human and animal studies using psychological, recording, imaging, and lesion techniques indicates that recognition memory involves at least two separable processes: familiarity discrimination and recollection. Familiarity discrimination for individual visual stimuli seems to be effected by a system centred on the perirhinal cortex of the temporal lobe. The fundamental change that encodes prior occurrence within the perirhinal cortex is a reduction in the responses of neurones when a stimulus is repeated. Neuronal network modelling indicates that a system based on such a change in responsiveness is potentially highly efficient in information theoretic terms. A review is given of findings indicating that perirhinal cortex acts as a storage site for recognition memory of objects and that such storage depends upon processes producing synaptic weakening.
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Hippocampal levels of ChAT, PKA, phospho-PKA and phospho-CaMKIIα but not CaMKIIα positively correlate with spatial learning skills in rats. Neurosci Lett 2013; 545:112-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.04.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2013] [Revised: 03/25/2013] [Accepted: 04/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Imprinting is a type of learning by which an animal restricts its social preferences to an object after exposure to that object. Filial imprinting occurs shortly after birth or hatching and sexual imprinting, around the onset of sexual maturity; both have sensitive periods. This review is concerned mainly with filial imprinting. Filial imprinting in the domestic chick is an effective experimental system for investigating mechanisms underlying learning and memory. Extensive evidence implicates a restricted part of the chick forebrain, the intermediate and medial mesopallium (IMM), as a memory store for visual imprinting. After imprinting to a visual stimulus, neuronal responsiveness in IMM is specifically biased toward the imprinting stimulus. Both this bias and the strength of imprinting measured behaviorally depend on uninterrupted sleep shortly after training. When learning-related changes in IMM are lateralized they occur predominantly or completely on the left side. Ablation experiments indicate that the left IMM is responsible for long-term storage of information about the imprinting stimulus; the right side is also a store but additionally is necessary for extra storage outside IMM, in a region necessary for flexible use of information acquired through imprinting. Auditory imprinting gives rise to biochemical, neuroanatomical, and electrophysiological changes in the medio-rostral nidopallium/mesopallium, anterior to IMM. Auditory imprinting has not been shown to produce learning-related changes in IMM. Imprinting may be facilitated by predispositions. Similar predispositions for faces and biological motion occur in domestic chicks and human infants. WIREs Cogn Sci 2013, 4:375-390. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1231 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.
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- Brian J McCabe
- Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Madingley, Cambridge, UK
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Solomonia RO, Meparishvili M, Mikautadze E, Kunelauri N, Apkhazava D, McCabe BJ. AMPA receptor phosphorylation and recognition memory: learning-related, time-dependent changes in the chick brain following filial imprinting. Exp Brain Res 2013; 226:297-308. [PMID: 23423166 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3435-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2012] [Accepted: 01/28/2013] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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There is strong evidence that a restricted part of the chick forebrain, the intermediate medial mesopallium (IMM), stores information acquired through the learning process of visual imprinting. We have previously demonstrated that at 1 h but not 24 h after imprinting training, a learning-specific increase in the amount of membrane Thr286-autophosphorylated α-calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (αCaMKII), and in the proportion of total αCaMKII that is phosphorylated, occurs in the IMM but not in a control brain region, the posterior pole of the nidopallium (PPN). αCaMKII directly phosphorylates Ser831 in the GluA1 subunit of the α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor. In the present study we have inquired whether the learning-related increase in αCaMKII autophosphorylation is followed by changes in the Ser831 phosphorylation of GluA1 (P-GluA1) and in the total amount of this subunit (T-GluA1). Trained chicks together with untrained control chicks were killed either 1 or 24 h after training. Tissue was removed from the IMM together with tissue from the PPN as a control. Amounts of P-GluA1 and T-GluA1 were measured. In the left IMM of the 1 h group the P-GluA1/T-GluA1 ratio increased in a learning-specific way. No learning-related changes were observed in other brain regions at 1 h or in any region 24 h after training. The results indicate that a time- and regionally-dependent, learning-specific increase in GluA1 phosphorylation occurs early in recognition memory formation.
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- Revaz O Solomonia
- Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
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Nakamori T, Maekawa F, Sato K, Tanaka K, Ohki-Hamazaki H. Neural basis of imprinting behavior in chicks. Dev Growth Differ 2013; 55:198-206. [DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2012] [Revised: 11/06/2012] [Accepted: 11/06/2012] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Center for Environmental Health Sciences; National Institute for Environmental Studies; Tsukuba; Ibaraki; 305-8506; Japan
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- Human Frontier Science Program; Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Human Health; Komazawa Women's University; Inagi; Tokyo; 206-8511; Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, School of Biomedical Science & Medical Research Institute; Tokyo Medical and Dental University; Bunkyo-ku; Tokyo; 113-8510; Japan
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- Division of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Kitasato University; Sagamihara; Kanagawa; 252-0373; Japan
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Solomonia RO, Kunelauri N, Mikautadze E, Apkhazava D, McCabe BJ, Horn G. Mitochondrial proteins, learning and memory: biochemical specialization of a memory system. Neuroscience 2011; 194:112-23. [PMID: 21839805 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.07.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2011] [Revised: 07/20/2011] [Accepted: 07/22/2011] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The enzyme cytochrome c oxidase is a mitochondrial protein complex that plays a crucial role in oxidative metabolism. In the present study we show that amounts of two of its protein subunits (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I [CO-I] and II [CO-II]) are influenced by both learning-independent and learning-dependent factors. Converging evidence has consistently implicated the left intermediate medial mesopallium (IMM) in the chick brain as a memory store for the learning process of visual imprinting. This form of learning proceeds very shortly after chicks have been hatched. In the left IMM, but not in three other brain regions studied, amounts of CO-I and CO-II co-varied: the correlation between them was highly significant. This relationship did not depend on learning. However, learning influenced the amounts of both proteins, but did so only in the left IMM. In this region, amounts of each protein increased with the strength of learning. These findings raise the possibility that the molecular mechanisms involved in the coordinated assembly of cytochrome c oxidase are precociously developed in the left IMM compared to the other regions studied. This precocious development may enable the region to respond efficiently to the oxidative demands made by the changes in synaptic connectivity that underlie memory formation and would allow the left IMM to function as a storage site within hours after hatching.
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- R O Solomonia
- Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University and I. Beritashvili Institute of Physiology, 14 L Gotua Street, Tbilisi 0160, Republic of Georgia
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Kharlamov EA, Lepsveridze E, Meparishvili M, Solomonia RO, Lu B, Miller ER, Kelly KM, Mtchedlishvili Z. Alterations of GABA(A) and glutamate receptor subunits and heat shock protein in rat hippocampus following traumatic brain injury and in posttraumatic epilepsy. Epilepsy Res 2011; 95:20-34. [PMID: 21439793 DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2010] [Revised: 12/20/2010] [Accepted: 02/18/2011] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in the development of posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE). Recently, we reported differential alterations in tonic and phasic GABA(A) receptor (GABA(A)R) currents in hippocampal dentate granule cells 90 days after controlled cortical impact (CCI) (Mtchedlishvili et al., 2010). In the present study, we investigated long-term changes in the protein expression of GABA(A)R α1, α4, γ2, and δ subunits, NMDA (NR2B) and AMPA (GluR1) receptor subunits, and heat shock proteins (HSP70 and HSP90) in the hippocampus of Sprague-Dawley rats evaluated by Western blotting in controls, CCI-injured animals without PTE (CCI group), and CCI-injured animals with PTE (PTE group). No differences were found among all three groups for α1 and α4 subunits. Significant reduction of γ2 protein was observed in the PTE group compared to control. CCI caused a 194% and 127% increase of δ protein in the CCI group compared to control (p<0.0001), and PTE (p<0.0001) groups, respectively. NR2B protein was increased in CCI and PTE groups compared to control (p=0.0001, and p=0.011, respectively). GluR1 protein was significantly decreased in CCI and PTE groups compared to control (p=0.003, and p=0.001, respectively), and in the PTE group compared to the CCI group (p=0.036). HSP70 was increased in CCI and PTE groups compared to control (p=0.014, and p=0.005, respectively); no changes were found in HSP90 expression. These results provide for the first time evidence of long-term alterations of GABA(A) and glutamate receptor subunits and a HSP following CCI.
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- Elena A Kharlamov
- Center for Neuroscience Research, Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, Allegheny General Hospital, 320 East North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-4772, United States.
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Molecular function of microtubule-associated protein 2 for filial imprinting in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). Neurosci Res 2011; 69:32-40. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2010.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2010] [Revised: 09/10/2010] [Accepted: 09/14/2010] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Myo-inositol treatment prevents biochemical changes triggered by kainate-induced status epilepticus. Neurosci Lett 2010; 468:277-81. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2009] [Revised: 11/03/2009] [Accepted: 11/04/2009] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Komissarova NV, Anokhin KV. Effects of an imprinting procedure on cell proliferation in the chick brain. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 38:289-96. [PMID: 18264776 DOI: 10.1007/s11055-008-0041-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2006] [Accepted: 12/25/2006] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We report here studies on the effects of an imprinting procedure on cell proliferation in neonatal chicks in brain structures known to undergo plastic changes in imprinting. Proliferating cells were detected immunohistochemically on brain sections by incorporation of pre-training doses of 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) into DNA; numbers of new cells were counted in the intermediate medial mesopallium, the intermediate arcopallium, the medial part of the mesopallium and the nidopallium, the dorsocaudal nidopallium, the hippocampus, and the parahippocampal region 24 h and seven days after training. The intermediate medial mesopallium showed an increase in the number of BrdU-positive cells 24 h after training. However, at seven days post-training, the number of BrdU-containing cells decreased in the medial nidopallium and mesopallium, in the dorsocaudal nidopallium, and the right intermediate medial mesopallium. Thus, the imprinting procedure had differently directed transient and long-term influences on the genesis of new cells in the chick brain, inducing the appearance of a large number of cells in the parenchyma of the brain one day after training and decreases in the numbers of cells at later time points. This double effect may be associated with the fact that the imprinting procedure simultaneously initiates two brain processes involving the control of cell proliferation - one related to maturation of a species-specific functional system for tracking individuals of the same species and one related to remembering the characteristics of the actual parent.
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- N V Komissarova
- P. K. Anokhin Research Institute of Normal Physiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow
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Gene expression profile in cerebrum in the filial imprinting of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). Brain Res Bull 2008; 76:275-81. [PMID: 18498941 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2008.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2007] [Revised: 12/06/2007] [Accepted: 02/06/2008] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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In newly hatched chicks, gene expression in the brain has previously been shown to be up-regulated following filial imprinting. By applying cDNA microarrays containing 13,007 expressed sequence tags, we examined the comprehensive gene expression profiling of the intermediate medial mesopallium in the chick cerebrum, which has been shown to play a key role in filial imprinting. We found 52 up-regulated genes and 6 down-regulated genes of at least 2.0-fold changes 3h after the training of filial imprinting, compared to the gene expression of the dark-reared chick brain. The up-regulated genes are known to be involved in a variety of pathways, including signal transduction, cytoskeletal organization, nuclear function, cell metabolism, RNA binding, endoplasmic reticulum or Golgi function, synaptic function, ion channel, and transporter. In contrast, fewer genes were down-regulated in the imprinting, coinciding with the previous data that the total RNA synthesis increased associated with filial imprinting. Our data suggests that the filial imprinting involves the modulation of multiple signaling pathways.
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Atkinson R, Migues PV, Hunter M, Rostas JAP. Molecular changes in the intermediate medial mesopallium after a one trial avoidance learning in immature and mature chickens. J Neurochem 2007; 104:891-902. [PMID: 18067548 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.05060.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Because brain maturation in chickens is protracted and occurs well after the major developmental period of synaptogenesis, chicken forebrain is suitable to investigate whether the molecular mechanisms underlying memory consolidation are different in immature and mature animals. We have used antibodies and western blotting to analyze subcellular fractions from the intermediate medial mesopallium region of 14-day and 8-week chicken forebrain prepared 0, 45, and 120 min after learning a discriminative taste avoidance task. At both ages learning induced changes in the phosphorylation of the glutamate receptor subunit 1 at Ser831, the levels of calcium-calmodulin stimulated/dependent protein kinase II and the phosphorylation of calcium-calmodulin stimulated/dependent protein kinase II at Thr286 were observed only in the fraction enriched in post-synaptic densities. The changes were of the same type at the two ages but occurred faster in mature animals. The changes in extracellular signal regulated kinase and phosphorylated-extracellular signal regulated kinase were more complex with different subcellular fractions showing different patterns of change at the two ages. These results imply that the molecular changes induced by learning a behavioral task are faster in mature than immature brain and may involve a different balance of intracellular signaling pathways.
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- Rebbekah Atkinson
- School of Psychology and the Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia
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Irvine EE, von Hertzen LSJ, Plattner F, Giese KP. alphaCaMKII autophosphorylation: a fast track to memory. Trends Neurosci 2006; 29:459-65. [PMID: 16806507 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2006.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2005] [Revised: 03/20/2006] [Accepted: 06/08/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Alpha Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent kinase II (alphaCaMKII), the major synaptic protein in the forebrain, can switch into a state of autonomous activity upon autophosphorylation. It has been proposed that alphaCaMKII autophosphorylation mediates long-term memory (LTM) storage. However, recent evidence shows that synaptic stimulation and behavioural training only transiently increase the autonomous alphaCaMKII activity, implicating alphaCaMKII autophosphorylation in LTM formation rather than storage. Consistent with this, mutant mice deficient in alphaCaMKII autophosphorylation can store LTM after a massed training protocol, but cannot form LTM after a single trial. Here, we review evidence that the role of alphaCaMKII autophosphorylation is in fact to enable LTM formation after a single training trial, possibly by regulating LTM consolidation-specific transcription.
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- Elaine E Irvine
- Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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