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Article Dans Une Revue Neurobiology of Aging Année : 2018

Behavioral tagging and capture: long-term memory decline in middle-aged rats

Alexandra Gros

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Decline in cognitive functions, including hippocampus-dependent spatial memory, is commonly observed at a later stage of aging (e.g., >20 months old in rodents) and typically studied after a discrete learning event. How normal aging, particularly at an early stage, affects the modulatory aspect of memory persistence is underinvestigated. Previous studies in young animals show that weak, fading memories can last longer if a modulating event, such as spatial novelty, is introduced around memory encoding. This is known as behavioral tagging and capture (BTC). Here, we investigated how early aging (10e13 months old) affects BTC in an appetitive delayed-matching-to-place task. We trained rats when they were young and middle aged and found that novelty facilitated long-term memory persistence in young but not in middle-aged rats. However, re-exposure to the encoded environment after learning improved memory persistence in middle-aged rats. BTC, combined with memory reactivation, facilitated memory persistence through reconsolidation. Our results point toward a weakened tagging and capture mechanism before reduction of plasticity-related proteins at an early stage of aging.
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hal-01896054 , version 1 (15-10-2018)

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Alexandra Gros, Szu-Han Wang. Behavioral tagging and capture: long-term memory decline in middle-aged rats. Neurobiology of Aging, 2018, 67, pp.31 - 41. ⟨10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.02.023⟩. ⟨hal-01896054⟩
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