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ArticlePloS one2016

Role of Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Serial Feature-Positive Discrimination Task during Eyeblink Conditioning in Mice.

Md Ashrafur Rahman, Norifumi Tanaka, Koji Usui, Shigenori Kawahara

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Md Ashrafur RahmanGraduate School of Innovative Life Science, University of Toyama, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama, 930-8555, Japan.
Norifumi TanakaGraduate School of Innovative Life Science, University of Toyama, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama, 930-8555, Japan.
Koji UsuiGraduate School of Innovative Life Science, University of Toyama, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama, 930-8555, Japan.
Shigenori KawaharaGraduate School of Innovative Life Science, University of Toyama, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama, 930-8555, Japan.

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Abstract

We investigated the role of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) in eyeblink serial feature-positive discrimination learning in mice using the mAChR antagonist. A 2-s light cue was delivered 5 or 6 s before the presentation of a 350-ms tone paired with a 100-ms periorbital electrical shock (cued trial) but not before the tone-alone presentation (non-cued trial). Mice received 30 cued and 30 non-cued trials each day in a random order. We found that saline-injected control mice were successfully discriminating between cued and non-cued trials within a few days of conditioning. The mice responded more frequently to the tone in cued trials than in non-cued trials. Analysis of conditioned response (CR) dynamics revealed that the CR onset latency was shorter in cued trials than in non-cued trials, despite the CR peak amplitude not differing significantly between the two conditions. In contrast, scopolamine-injected mice developed an equal number of CRs with similar temporal patterns irrespective of the presence of the cue during the 7 days of conditioning, indicating in a failure to acquire conditional discrimination. In addition, the scopolamine administration to the control mice after they had successfully acquired discrimination did not impair the conditional discrimination and expression of pre-acquired CR. These results suggest that mAChRs may play a pivotal role in memory formation in the conditional brain state associated with the feature cue; however they are unlikely to be involved in the development of discrimination after conditional memory had formed in the serial feature-positive discrimination task during eyeblink conditioning.

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AnimalsConditioning, EyelidDiscrimination LearningElectromyographyMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMuscarinic AntagonistsReceptors, MuscarinicScopolamineMuscarinic AntagonistsReceptors, MuscarinicScopolamine

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PMCPMC4725850

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