Cellular traces of behavioral classical conditioning can be recorded at several specific sites in a simple nervous system

被引:45
作者
Stares, K [1 ]
Kemenes, G [1 ]
Benjamin, PR [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sussex, Sch Biol Sci, Sussex Ctr Neurosci, Brighton BN1 9QG, E Sussex, England
关键词
classical conditioning; memory trace; cellular plasticity; feeding behavior; invertebrates; semi-intact preparations; Lymnaea;
D O I
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.19-01-00347.1999
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
We used a behavioral learning paradigm followed by electrophysiological analysis to find sites in the Lymnaea feeding network in which electrical changes could be recorded after appetitive conditioning. Specifically we analyzed conditioning-induced changes in cellular responses in the mechanosensory conditioned stimulus (CS) pathway, in the central pattern generator (CPG) network, and in feeding motoneurons. During training, experimental animals received 15 pairings of lip touch (the CS) with sucrose (the unconditioned stimulus, US). Control animals received 15 random CS and US presentations. Electrophysiological tests on semi-intact preparations made from conditioned animals demonstrated a network correlate of the overall feeding conditioned response, a touch-evoked CPG-driven fictive feeding rhythm. At the motoneuronal level, we found significant conditioning-induced increases in the amplitude of an early touch-evoked EPSP and spike activity, recorded from the B3 feeding motoneuron. Increases in EPSP amplitude and motoneuronal spike activity could occur independently of conditioned fictive feeding. These changes in response recorded at the level of CPG interneurons, and motoneurons were preceded by changes recorded in the CS pathway. This was demonstrated by recording a conditioning-induced increase in the number of touch-evoked spikes in the cerebrobuccal connective, which forms part of the CS pathway. The finding that electrophysiological changes after conditioning can be recorded at multiple sites in this simple system provided an important intermediate level of analysis between whole animal behavior and cellular studies on the synaptic sites of plasticity.
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