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The medial prefrontal cortex—lateral entorhinal cortex circuit is essential for episodic‐like memory and associative object‐recognition

The medial prefrontal cortex—lateral entorhinal cortex circuit is essential for episodic‐like... ABSTRACT The prefrontal cortex directly projects to the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC), an important substrate for engaging item‐associated information and relaying the information to the hippocampus. Here we ask to what extent the communication between the prefrontal cortex and LEC is critically involved in the processing of episodic‐like memory. We applied a disconnection procedure to test whether the interaction between the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and LEC is essential for the expression of recognition memory. It was found that male rats that received unilateral NMDA lesions of the mPFC and LEC in the same hemisphere, exhibited intact episodic‐like (what‐where‐when) and object‐recognition memories. When these lesions were placed in the opposite hemispheres (disconnection), episodic‐like and associative memories for object identity, location and context were impaired. However, the disconnection did not impair the components of episodic memory, namely memory for novel object (what), object place (where) and temporal order (when), per se. Thus, the present findings suggest that the mPFC and LEC are a critical part of a neural circuit that underlies episodic‐like and associative object‐recognition memory. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hippocampus Wiley

The medial prefrontal cortex—lateral entorhinal cortex circuit is essential for episodic‐like memory and associative object‐recognition

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Wiley
Copyright
© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
ISSN
1050-9631
eISSN
1098-1063
DOI
10.1002/hipo.22547
pmid
26501829
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Abstract

ABSTRACT The prefrontal cortex directly projects to the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC), an important substrate for engaging item‐associated information and relaying the information to the hippocampus. Here we ask to what extent the communication between the prefrontal cortex and LEC is critically involved in the processing of episodic‐like memory. We applied a disconnection procedure to test whether the interaction between the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and LEC is essential for the expression of recognition memory. It was found that male rats that received unilateral NMDA lesions of the mPFC and LEC in the same hemisphere, exhibited intact episodic‐like (what‐where‐when) and object‐recognition memories. When these lesions were placed in the opposite hemispheres (disconnection), episodic‐like and associative memories for object identity, location and context were impaired. However, the disconnection did not impair the components of episodic memory, namely memory for novel object (what), object place (where) and temporal order (when), per se. Thus, the present findings suggest that the mPFC and LEC are a critical part of a neural circuit that underlies episodic‐like and associative object‐recognition memory. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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HippocampusWiley

Published: May 1, 2016

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