Synaptic Function & Plasticity in CA3 Circuits in the Aging Hippocampus

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基本信息

  • 批准号:
    8318663
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 37.06万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    美国
  • 项目类别:
  • 财政年份:
    2009
  • 资助国家:
    美国
  • 起止时间:
    2009-08-15 至 2014-07-31
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aging has a profound impact on learning and encoding new memories. Advances in the field of aging suggest that changes at the cellular level rather than structural alterations are more relevant for understanding cognitive deficits associated with aging. In this regard, electrophysiological analysis of synaptic function in the CA1 region of the hippocampus has provided the important insights that age disrupts the mechanisms by which the synaptic connectivity is modified to encode new memories. These changes in synaptic plasticity provide a conceptual basis to understand learning deficits in aged individuals. Although focusing on alterations in CA1 associated with learning deficits has been fruitful, recently it has become clear the need to expand the research scope. First is the realization that other circuits in the hippocampus participate differently during memory encoding, and that aging affects them differently, and even more prominently, in the case of CA3. In addition, although on average cognitive abilities decline with age, a recognizable subpopulation of aged individuals maintains mental abilities. Thus, while an ultimate goal could be to preserve the integrity of the cellular processes normally affected by age, a complementary approach is to focus on adaptative changes occuring naturally in response to lost functions. We approach these issues ex vivo, by studying synaptic plasticity in hippocampal slices from aged rats characterized in a hippocampal- dependent learning task. The goals of this project are to 1) understand how aging affects the synaptic functions that support learning in CA3, 2) identify mechanisms that allow some aged individuals to maintain cognitive abilities and 3) understand how intervention treatments that improve learning in aged individuals affect synaptic plasticity. Our research suggests that some mechanisms of synaptic plasticity are irreversibly lost in aged rats. However, those aged individuals that maintained cognitive performance manage to compensate for the lost by boosting other mechanisms. These adaptatively enhanced plasticity mechanisms are an obvious target for therapeutical strategies aimed at restoring learning in aged individuals. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Aging can have a pronounced impact on mental abilities, particularly on learning and memory. Although such decline is widespread enough to be often considered a normal aspect of aging, some older individuals retain strong cognitive abilities. This proposal will investigate the type of neural adaptive changes that are required to maintain cognitive performance at old age.
描述(由申请人提供):衰老对学习和编码新记忆有深远的影响。衰老领域的进展表明,细胞水平的变化而不是结构的改变对于理解与衰老相关的认知缺陷更相关。在这方面,对海马 CA1 区突触功能的电生理学分析提供了重要的见解,即年龄会破坏突触连接被修改以编码新记忆的机制。突触可塑性的这些变化为理解老年人的学习缺陷提供了概念基础。尽管关注与学习缺陷相关的 CA1 改变已经取得了丰硕的成果,但最近很明显需要扩大研究范围。首先是我们认识到海马体中的其他回路在记忆编码过程中的参与方式不同,并且衰老对它们的影响也不同,对于 CA3 来说甚至更为显着。此外,尽管平均认知能力会随着年龄的增长而下降,但有一部分老年人仍能保持心理能力。因此,虽然最终目标可能是保持通常受年龄影响的细胞过程的完整性,但补充方法是关注因功能丧失而自然发生的适应性变化。我们通过研究以海马依赖性学习任务为特征的老年大鼠海马切片的突触可塑性来离体解决这些问题。该项目的目标是 1) 了解衰老如何影响支持 CA3 学习的突触功能,2) 确定允许某些老年人保持认知能力的机制,3) 了解改善老年人学习的干预治疗如何影响突触可塑性。我们的研究表明,老年大鼠中一些突触可塑性的机制不可逆转地丧失。然而,那些保持认知能力的老年人设法通过增强其他机制来弥补损失。这些适应性增强的可塑性机制是旨在恢复老年人学习能力的治疗策略的明显目标。 公共卫生相关性:衰老会对心理能力产生显着影响,特别是对学习和记忆力。尽管这种衰退非常普遍,通常被认为是衰老的正常现象,但一些老年人仍然保持着很强的认知能力。该提案将研究维持老年认知能力所需的神经适应性变化类型。

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Alfredo Kirkwood其他文献

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Reversible activation of critical period plasticity in visual cortex
视觉皮层关键期可塑性的可逆激活
  • 批准号:
    10477349
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 37.06万
  • 项目类别:
Reversible activation on critical plasticity in visual cortex
视觉皮层关键可塑性的可逆激活
  • 批准号:
    9129706
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 37.06万
  • 项目类别:
Administrative Supplement: Reversible activation of critical period plasticity in visual cortex
行政补充:视觉皮层关键期可塑性的可逆激活
  • 批准号:
    10782343
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 37.06万
  • 项目类别:
Reversible activation of critical period plasticity in visual cortex
视觉皮层关键期可塑性的可逆激活
  • 批准号:
    10686127
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 37.06万
  • 项目类别:
Reversible activation of critical period plasticity in visual cortex
视觉皮层关键期可塑性的可逆激活
  • 批准号:
    10815219
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 37.06万
  • 项目类别:
Reversible activation of critical period plasticity in visual cortex
视觉皮层关键期可塑性的可逆激活
  • 批准号:
    10261449
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 37.06万
  • 项目类别:
Reversible activation on critical plasticity in visual cortex
视觉皮层关键可塑性的可逆激活
  • 批准号:
    8981957
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 37.06万
  • 项目类别:
Reversible activation on critical plasticity in visual cortex
视觉皮层关键可塑性的可逆激活
  • 批准号:
    9346113
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 37.06万
  • 项目类别:
Synaptic Function & Plasticity in CA3 Circuits in the Aging Hippocampus
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  • 批准号:
    7729827
  • 财政年份:
    2009
  • 资助金额:
    $ 37.06万
  • 项目类别:
Synaptic Function & Plasticity in CA3 Circuits in the Aging Hippocampus
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  • 批准号:
    8516422
  • 财政年份:
    2009
  • 资助金额:
    $ 37.06万
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