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Neurobiol Learn Mem ; 93(3): 362-71, 2010 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19969098

RESUMEN

The progression of brain circuits involved in spatial learning tasks is still a matter of debate. In addition, the participation of individual regions at different stages of spatial learning remains a controversial issue. In order to address these questions, we used quantitative cytochrome oxidase histochemistry as a metabolic brain mapping method applied to rats (Rattus norvegicus) trained in a water maze for 1, 3 or 5 days of training. Sustained changes throughout training were found in the lateral septal nucleus and anteroventral thalamic nucleus. As compared to naïve or habituation groups, rats with 1 day of training in the spatial learning task showed involvement of the lateral mammillary nucleus, basolateral amygdala and anterodorsal thalamic nucleus. By 5 days of training, there were mean changes in the hippocampal CA3 field and the prefrontal cortex. The regions involved and their pattern of network interactions changed progressively over days of training. At 1-day there was an open serial network of pairwise correlations. At 3-days there was a more closed reciprocal network of intercorrelations. At 5-days there were three separate parallel networks. In addition, brain-behavior correlations showed that CA1 and CA3 hippocampal fields together with the parietal cortex are related to the mastery of the spatial learning task. The present study extends previous findings on the progressive contribution of neural networks to spatial learning.


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Complejo IV de Transporte de Electrones/metabolismo , Aprendizaje por Laberinto/fisiología , Red Nerviosa/enzimología , Percepción Espacial/fisiología , Agua , Animales , Núcleos Talámicos Anteriores/enzimología , Hipocampo/enzimología , Inmunohistoquímica , Masculino , Lóbulo Parietal/enzimología , Ratas , Ratas Wistar
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Neurosci Res ; 65(1): 28-34, 2009 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19463868

RESUMEN

Sex differences have been found in the spatial memory which involve several regions of the limbic system. The Morris water maze (MWM) is one of the most widely used tasks in behavioral neuroscience to explore spatial and episodic memory in rats. We evaluated the oxidative metabolic activity of the prefrontal cortex, dorsal hippocampus, anterior thalamic nuclei and mammillary region following the acquisition of a spatial working memory (WM) task in young rats (30 days) of both sexes using quantitative histochemistry of the cytochrome oxidase (COx). The rats were trained until they achieved the learning criteria in the MWM using a hidden escape platform with different daily locations, and two control groups were added to evaluate the oxidative metabolism not specific to the learning task. We found a delay in the acquisition of the WM in females. A significant decrease in COx activity was found in the prefrontal cortex in both sexes. Also, changes were found in the dentate gyrus and lateral mammillary nucleus in males, whereas females showed changes in the anterodorsal thalamus and CA3. These results suggest a sex difference in the contribution of brain limbic structures to the WM process during postnatal development.


Asunto(s)
Complejo IV de Transporte de Electrones/metabolismo , Aprendizaje por Laberinto/fisiología , Animales , Núcleos Talámicos Anteriores/enzimología , Femenino , Hipocampo/enzimología , Masculino , Tubérculos Mamilares/enzimología , Memoria a Corto Plazo , Corteza Prefrontal/enzimología , Ratas , Ratas Wistar , Caracteres Sexuales , Conducta Espacial
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Brain Res ; 923(1-2): 39-44, 2001 Dec 27.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11743970

RESUMEN

Local circuit neurons in the human anterior thalamus (AT) were identified on the basis of glutamic acid decarboxylase immunoreactivity (GAD-IR). GAD-IR neurons of the AT displayed small diameter somas with thin, sparsely-branching dendrites, consistent with the morphological characteristics of local circuit neurons found in the thalami of other mammals. Sampling techniques revealed an average of 42% of all neurons within the AT were GAD-IR, one of the highest reported percentages of local circuit neurons in the mammalian thalamus. The presence of high proportion of local circuit neurons in the AT may indicate the extent to which the Papez circuit has evolved within the human brain in comparison to other mammals.


Asunto(s)
Núcleos Talámicos Anteriores/citología , Glutamato Descarboxilasa/análisis , Interneuronas/enzimología , Adulto , Núcleos Talámicos Anteriores/enzimología , Anticuerpos , Recuento de Células , Tamaño de la Célula , Femenino , Glutamato Descarboxilasa/inmunología , Humanos , Masculino , Memoria , Persona de Mediana Edad
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