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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Regulation of hippocampal synaptic plasticity thresholds and changes in exploratory and learning behavior in dominant negative NPR-B mutant rats |
| Creators Name: | Barmashenko, G., Buttgereit, J., Herring, N., Bader, M., Oezcelik, C., Manahan-Vaughan, D. and Braunewell, K.H. |
| Abstract: | The second messenger cyclic GMP affects synaptic transmission and modulates synaptic plasticity and certain types of learning and memory processes. The impact of the natriuretic peptide receptor B (NPR-B) and its ligand C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP), one of several cGMP producing signaling systems, on hippocampal synaptic plasticity and learning is, however, less well understood. We have previously shown that the NPR-B ligand CNP increases the magnitude of long-term depression (LTD) in hippocampal area CA1, while reducing the induction of long-term potentiation (LTP). We have extended this line of research to show that bidirectional plasticity is affected in the opposite way in rats expressing a dominant-negative mutant of NPR-B (NSE-NPR-BΔKC) lacking the intracellular guanylyl cyclase domain under control of a promoter for neuron-specific enolase. The brain cells of these transgenic rats express functional dimers of the NPR-B receptor containing the dominant-negative NPR-BΔKC mutant, and therefore show decreased CNP-stimulated cGMP-production in brain membranes. The NPR-B transgenic rats display enhanced LTP but reduced LTD in hippocampal slices. When the frequency-dependence of synaptic modification to afferent stimulation in the range of 1-100 Hz was assessed in transgenic rats, the threshold for both, LTP and LTD induction, was shifted to lower frequencies. In parallel, NPR-BΔKC rats exhibited an enhancement in exploratory and learning behavior. These results indicate that bidirectional plasticity and learning and memory mechanism are affected in transgenic rats expressing a dominant-negative mutant of NPR-B. Our data substantiate the hypothesis that NPR-B-dependent cGMP signaling has a modulatory role for synaptic information storage and learning. |
| Keywords: | cGMP, Exploratory, Hippocampus, LTP, LTD, Metaplasticity, NPR-B, Memory, Animals, Rats |
| Source: | Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience |
| ISSN: | 1662-5099 |
| Publisher: | Frontiers Media SA |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Page Range: | 95 |
| Date: | 1 December 2014 |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2014.00095 |
| PubMed: | View item in PubMed |
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