Lectures 16, 17, 18, & 19 Flashcards
Behavioral experiences that result in a memory also traffic additional WHAT AMPA receptors into the spines?
GluA1
Describe manilow’s experiment that found GluA1s role in LTP?
Genetically engineered GluR1 AMPAs were encoded and given to mice using viruses and after mice were exposed to fear conditioning they tested to see if their brain had evidence of trafficking the engineered receptors
Where were the AMPA GluA1 receptors inserted in the mice in Manilow’s experiment?
Lateral Amygdala
How did Manilow label the GluA1 AMPA receptors?
With a fluorescent molecule
Describe the fear conditioning in manilow’s experiment
Rats were tested for fear of a tone paired with a shock or tested with a fear of a tone unpaired with shock
What did Manilow’s paired vs unpaired mice reveal?
The paired mice had lots of GluA1 AMPA receptors in the spines
What happens if you block AMPA receptor trafficking?
Impairs fear conditioning
What happened to fear conditioning in Manilow’s mice to tone paired shocks at 3 and 24 hours with the dummy AMPA GluA1?
Impaired
Can slices with virally modified receptors sustain LTP in the lateral amygdala?
No
What are two levels that consolidation is studied at?
Cellular synaptic and systems
What is the cellular synaptic level of analysis of consolidation?
- requires an experience induced activation of intracellular signaling cascades resulting in postranslational modifications, modulation of gene expression and the synthesis of gene products
- presumed to draw to a close hours to days after the experience
What is the systems level of analysis of consolidation?
- post-encoding time-dependent reorganization of LTM representation over distributed brain circuits
- last days to months and even years
How does something become an LTM trace?
A STM trace can evolve into a LTM trace
- requires generation of new proteins
- requires changes to the synapse and to the connections between widespread circuits
- consolidation process occurs in multiple waves that involve multiple cell signaling processes
What are the intervals for STM and LTM?
1-2 hours STM
24 hrs LTM
What are the two possible outcomes of an experiment looking at the effects of impairing molecule X on LTM formation?
- effects LTM but not STM
- effects both LTM and STM
How was testing the effect of inhibiting protein synthesis on memory retention done? (What kind of task)
Inhibitory avoidance task
What did the inhibitory avoidance task reveal about waves of consolidation?
Two waves
Does STM require new protein?
No