Effects of pre or posttraining dorsal hippocampus D-AP5 injection on fear conditioning to tone, background, and foreground context

NMDA receptor antagonist D‐AP5 was injected into the dorsal hippocampus of Wistar rats before or immediately after the training session in fear conditioning. Training was conducted both with signaled (background context) or unsignaled (foreground context) footshocks. Contextual fear conditioning was...

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Published in:Hippocampus 2008-11, Vol.18 (11), p.1089-1093
Main Authors: Schenberg, Eduardo Ekman, Oliveira, Maria Gabriela Menezes
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate - administration & dosage
Animals
AP5
Conditioning, Classical - drug effects
Conditioning, Classical - physiology
Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists - administration & dosage
Fear - psychology
fear conditioning
hippocampus
Hippocampus - drug effects
Hippocampus - physiology
Male
memory
NMDA receptors
Rats
Rats, Wistar
Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate - antagonists & inhibitors
Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate - drug effects
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Summary:NMDA receptor antagonist D‐AP5 was injected into the dorsal hippocampus of Wistar rats before or immediately after the training session in fear conditioning. Training was conducted both with signaled (background context) or unsignaled (foreground context) footshocks. Contextual fear conditioning was assessed 24 h later and tone fear conditioning 48 h after training (only in the signaled footshock condition). Pretraining injections impaired conditioned fear to contextual features, both in background and foreground configurations, whereas tone fear conditioning was left intact. Posttraining injections were ineffective in all cases. We conclude that dorsal hippocampal NMDA receptors are required for contextual fear acquisition independently of context saliency and that they are not required to early consolidation processes. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
ISSN:1050-9631
1098-1063
DOI:10.1002/hipo.20475