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Article Dans Une Revue Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Année : 2012

Maternal deprivation induces deficits in temporal memory and cognitive flexibility and exaggerates synaptic plasticity in the rat medial prefrontal cortex

Aurelie Baudin
  • Fonction : Auteur
Kevin Blot
  • Fonction : Auteur
Catherine Verney
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Lucie Estevez
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Julie Santamaria
  • Fonction : Auteur
Pierre Gressens
Satoru Otani
  • Fonction : Auteur
Valerie Dauge
  • Fonction : Auteur
Laurent Naudon

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Early life adverse events can lead to structural and functional impairments in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Here, we investigated whether maternal deprivation (MD) alters PFC-dependent executive functions, neurons and astrocytes number and synaptic plasticity in adult male Long-Evans rats. The deprivation protocol consisted of a daily separation of newborn Long-Evans pups from their mothers and littermates 3 h/day postnatal day 1-14. Cognitive performances were assessed in adulthood using the temporal order memory task (TMT) and the attentional set-shifting task (ASST) that principally implicates the PFC and the Morris water maze task (WMT) that does not essentially rely on the PFC. The neurons and astrocytes of the prelimbic (PrL) area of the medial PFC (mPFC) were immunolabelled respectively with anti-NeuN and anti-GFAP antibodies and quantified by stereology. The field potentials evoked by electrical stimulation of ventral hippocampus (ventral HPC) were recorded in vivo in the PrL area. In adulthood, MD produced cognitive deficits in two PFC-dependent tasks, the TMT and ASST, but not in the WMT. In parallel, MD induced in the prelimbic area of the medial PFC an upregulation of long-term potentiation (LTP), without any change in the number of neurons and astrocytes. We provide evidence that MD leads in adults to an alteration of the cognitive abilities dependent on the PFC, and to an exaggerated synaptic plasticity in this region. We suggest that this latter phenomenon may contribute to the impairments in the cognitive tasks.

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hal-01542337 , version 1 (19-06-2017)

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Aurelie Baudin, Kevin Blot, Catherine Verney, Lucie Estevez, Julie Santamaria, et al.. Maternal deprivation induces deficits in temporal memory and cognitive flexibility and exaggerates synaptic plasticity in the rat medial prefrontal cortex. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 2012, 98 (3), pp.207-214. ⟨10.1016/j.nlm.2012.08.004⟩. ⟨hal-01542337⟩
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