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ArticleCell reports2018

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Control Encoding and Retrieval of Associative Recognition Memory through Plasticity in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex.

Marie H Sabec, Susan Wonnacott, E Clea Warburton, Zafar I Bashir

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Article in Cell reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Control of Synaptic Levels of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor by the Sequestering Subunit Dα5 and Secreted Scaffold Protein Hig.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  14. Outcome-Locked Cholinergic Signaling Suppresses Prefrontal Encoding of Stimulus Associations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Marie H SabecSchool of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK. Electronic address: marie.sabec@pasteur.fr.
Susan WonnacottDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.
E Clea WarburtonSchool of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK.
Zafar I BashirSchool of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J014400/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L001896/1Wellcome Trust 206401/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) expressed in the medial prefrontal cortex have critical roles in cognitive function. However, whether nAChRs are required for associative recognition memory and the mechanisms by which nAChRs may contribute to mnemonic processing are not known. We demonstrate that nAChRs in the prefrontal cortex exhibit subtype-specific roles in associative memory encoding and retrieval. We present evidence that these separate roles of nAChRs may rely on bidirectional modulation of plasticity at synaptic inputs to the prefrontal cortex that are essential for associative recognition memory.

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AnimalsAssociation LearningMaleMemoryNeuronal PlasticityPrefrontal CortexRatsReceptors, AMPAReceptors, Nicotinicglutamate receptor ionotropic, AMPA 2Receptors, AMPAReceptors, Nicotinicacetylcholineassociative recognition memorymedial prefrontal cortexnicotinic receptorplasticity

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PMID29590611
PMCPMC5896173

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