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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
24
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-6-16
pubmed:abstractText
Unraveling the mechanisms by which the molecular manipulation of genes of interest enhances cognitive function is important to establish genetic therapies for cognitive disorders. Although CREB is thought to positively regulate formation of long-term memory (LTM), gain-of-function effects of CREB remain poorly understood, especially at the behavioral level. To address this, we generated four lines of transgenic mice expressing dominant active CREB mutants (CREB-Y134F or CREB-DIEDML) in the forebrain that exhibited moderate upregulation of CREB activity. These transgenic lines improved not only LTM but also long-lasting long-term potentiation in the CA1 area in the hippocampus. However, we also observed enhanced short-term memory (STM) in contextual fear-conditioning and social recognition tasks. Enhanced LTM and STM could be dissociated behaviorally in these four lines of transgenic mice, suggesting that the underlying mechanism for enhanced STM and LTM are distinct. LTM enhancement seems to be attributable to the improvement of memory consolidation by the upregulation of CREB transcriptional activity, whereas higher basal levels of BDNF, a CREB target gene, predicted enhanced shorter-term memory. The importance of BDNF in STM was verified by microinfusing BDNF or BDNF inhibitors into the hippocampus of wild-type or transgenic mice. Additionally, increasing BDNF further enhanced LTM in one of the lines of transgenic mice that displayed a normal BDNF level but enhanced LTM, suggesting that upregulation of BDNF and CREB activity cooperatively enhances LTM formation. Our findings suggest that CREB positively regulates memory consolidation and affects memory performance by regulating BDNF expression.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
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pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1529-2401
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8786-802
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Analysis of Variance, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Behavior, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-CREB-Binding Protein, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 4, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Carbazoles, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Cell Line, Transformed, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Conditioning, Classical, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Discrimination (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Electric Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Fear, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Indole Alkaloids, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Long-Term Potentiation, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Luminescent Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Maze Learning, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Memory, Long-Term, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Memory, Short-Term, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Patch-Clamp Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Phenylalanine, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Social Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Tyrosine, pubmed-meshheading:21677163-Up-Regulation
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Upregulation of CREB-mediated transcription enhances both short- and long-term memory.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Applied Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo 156-8502, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't