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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-2-12
pubmed:abstractText
The prefrontal cortex has been shown to participate in the association of events separated by time. However, it is not known whether the prefrontal cortex stores the memory for these relationships. Trace conditioning is a form of classical conditioning in which a time gap separates the conditioned stimulus (CS) from the unconditioned stimulus (US), the association of which has been shown to depend on prefrontal activity. Here we demonstrate that inhibition of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (Erk) cascade (a biochemical pathway involved in long-term memory storage) in the rat medial prefrontal cortex did not interfere with memory encoding for trace fear conditioning but impaired memory retention. In addition, animals displayed impaired memory for the irrelevancy of the training context. Hippocampal Erk phosphorylation was found to have a later time course than prefrontal Erk phosphorylation after trace fear conditioning, indicating a direct role for the prefrontal cortex in associative memory storage for temporally separated events as well as in memory storage of relevancy.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1529-2401
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1288-95
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Association, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Conditioning, Classical, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Drug Administration Routes, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Electroshock, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Fear, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Gyrus Cinguli, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Male, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Memory, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Prefrontal Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Retention (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:14960599-Time Factors
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
A role for prefrontal cortex in memory storage for trace fear conditioning.
pubmed:affiliation
The Vivian L. Smith Center for Neurologic Research and the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77225, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.