Lesions of the medial or lateral perforant path have different effects on hippocampal contributions to place learning and on fear conditioning to context

被引:71
作者
Ferbinteanu, J
Holsinger, RMD
McDonald, RJ
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Dept Psychol, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada
[2] McMaster Univ, Dept Biol, Hamilton, ON, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
hippocampus; amygdala; entorhinal cortex; electrophysiology; dentate gyrus;
D O I
10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00144-2
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
The axons of the neurons in the medial and lateral components of the entorhinal cortex (MEC and LEG) form the medial and lateral perforant paths (MPP and LPP) which represent the major source of cortical input to the hippocampus. Anatomical, physiological, and pharmacological studies have shown that MPP and LPP are distinct. Unfortunately. assessment of the functional significance of damage to either of these pathways has not used tasks known to be sensitive to hippocampal function in the rodent. In this study, we performed dissociated lesions of MPP and LPP using a combined physiological and anatomical method. Rats with lesions of either the MPP or the LPP were tested on place learning in the water task and on a discriminative fear conditioning to context task. The results indicated that the MPP, but not LPP, lesions resulted in impaired place learning. The context discrimination data revealed an amygdala-like, reduced fear effect of MPP lesions and an enhanced discriminative fear conditioning to context effect of LPP lesions. Consistent with a two-stage model of spatial learning proposed by Buzsaki (Buzsaki G, Two-stage model of memory trace formation: a role for 'noisy' brain states, Neuroscience 1959;31(3):551-570), the impairment in the water task can be interpreted as reflecting the higher efficiency of the MPP synapses in activating hippocampal neurons. The context discrimination results can be explained by either a dissociation of sensory information that reaches the MEC and LEG, of alternatively, by a dissociation between the limbic nature of the MEC and the sensory nature of the LEG. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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