The Maturational Characteristics of the GABA Input in the Anterior Piriform Cortex May Also Contribute to the Rapid Learning of the Maternal Odor during the Sensitive Period

Autor/inn/en	Oruro, Enver Miguel; Pardo, Grace V. E.; Lucion, Aldo Bolten; Calcagnotto, Maria Elisa; Idiart, Marco A. P.
Titel	The Maturational Characteristics of the GABA Input in the Anterior Piriform Cortex May Also Contribute to the Rapid Learning of the Maternal Odor during the Sensitive Period
Quelle	In: Learning & Memory, 27 (2020) 12, S.493-502 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Pardo, Grace V. E.) ORCID (Lucion, Aldo Bolten) ORCID (Calcagnotto, Maria Elisa) ORCID (Idiart, Marco A. P.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-0502
DOI	10.1101/lm.052217.120
Schlagwörter	Neonates; Animals; Olfactory Perception; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Mothers; Preferences; Age Differences; Recall (Psychology); Associative Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neugeborenes Kind; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Mother; Mutter; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Abberufung
Abstract	During the first ten postnatal days (P), infant rodents can learn olfactory preferences for novel odors if they are paired with thermo-tactile stimuli that mimic components of maternal care. After P10, the thermo-tactile pairing becomes ineffective for conditioning. The current explanation for this change in associative learning is the alteration in the norepinephrine (NE) inputs from the locus coeruleus (LC) to the olfactory bulb (OB) and the anterior piriform cortex (aPC). By combining patch-clamp electrophysiology and computational simulations, we showed in a recent work that a transitory high responsiveness of the OB-aPC circuit to the maternal odor is an alternative mechanism that could also explain early olfactory preference learning and its cessation after P10. That result relied solely on the maturational properties of the aPC pyramidal cells. However, the GABAergic system undergoes important changes during the same period. To address the importance of the maturation of the GABAergic system for early olfactory learning, we incorporated data from the GABA inputs, obtained from in vitro patch-clamp experiment in the aPC of rat pups aged P5-P7 reported here, to the model proposed in our previous publication. In the younger than P10 OB-aPC circuit with GABA synaptic input, the number of responsive aPC pyramidal cells to the conditioned maternal odor was amplified in 30% compared to the circuit without GABAergic input. When compared with the circuit with other younger than P10 OB-aPC circuit with adult GABAergic input profile, this amplification was 88%. Together, our results suggest that during the olfactory preference learning in younger than P10, the GABAergic synaptic input presumably acts by depolarizing the aPC pyramidal neurons in such a way that it leads to the amplification of the pyramidal neurons response to the conditioned maternal odor. Furthermore, our results suggest that during this developmental period, the aPC pyramidal cells themselves seem to resolve the apparent lack of GABAergic synaptic inhibition by a strong firing adaptation in response to increased depolarizing inputs. (As Provided).
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