title: Activation of perineuronal net-expressing excitatory neurons during associative memory encoding and retrieval.
abstract: Perineuronal nets (PNNs), proteoglycan-rich extracellular matrix structures, are thought to be expressed around inhibitory neurons and contribute to critical periods of brain function and synaptic plasticity. However, in some specific brain regions such as the amygdala, PNNs were predominantly expressed around excitatory neurons. These neurons were recruited during auditory fear conditioning and memory retrieval. Indeed, the activation of PNN-expressing excitatory neurons predicted cognitive performance.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Gene Regulation Research, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan.|Life Science Tokyo Advanced Research Center (L-StaR), Hoshi University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-4-41, Ebara, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Shota
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morikawa
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.|Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Suita City, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ikegaya
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Hoshi University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-4-41, Ebara, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Narita
authors.affiliation: Life Science Tokyo Advanced Research Center (L-StaR), Hoshi University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-4-41, Ebara, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tamura
mesh_terms: D053674:Aggrecans / Q000378:metabolism; D000679:Amygdala / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002449:Cell Aggregation; D005239:Fear; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D010320:Parvalbumins / Q000378:metabolism; D016760:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D053674:Aggrecans; D010320:Parvalbumins; D016760:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos