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ArticleLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2021

Developmental emergence of persistent memory for contextual and auditory fear in mice.

Rojina Samifanni, Mudi Zhao, Arely Cruz-Sanchez, Agarsh Satheesh, Unza Mumtaz, Maithe Arruda-Carvalho

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Article in Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  5. Developmental and molecular contributions to contextual fear memory emergence in mice.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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  6. Dorsal peduncular cortex activity modulates affective behavior and fear extinction in mice.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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Rojina Samifanni *Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario M1C1A4, Canada.
Mudi Zhao *Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario M1C1A4, Canada.
Arely Cruz-SanchezDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario M1C1A4, Canada.
Agarsh SatheeshDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario M1C1A4, Canada.
Unza MumtazDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario M1C1A4, Canada.
Maithe Arruda-CarvalhoDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario M1C1A4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7832-3729

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to generate memories that persist throughout a lifetime (that is, memory persistence) emerges in early development across species. Although it has been shown that persistent fear memories emerge between late infancy and adolescence in mice, it is unclear exactly when this transition takes place, and whether two major fear conditioning tasks, contextual and auditory fear, share the same time line of developmental onset. Here, we compared the ontogeny of remote contextual and auditory fear in C57BL/6J mice across early life. Mice at postnatal day (P)15, 21, 25, 28, and 30 underwent either contextual or auditory fear training and were tested for fear retrieval 1 or 30 d later. We found that mice displayed 30-d memory for context- and tone-fear starting at P25. We did not find sex differences in the ontogeny of either type of fear memory. Furthermore, 30-d contextual fear retrieval led to an increase in the number of c-Fos positive cells in the prelimbic region of the prefrontal cortex only at an age in which the contextual fear memory was successfully retrieved. These data delineate a precise time line for the emergence of persistent contextual and auditory fear memories in mice and suggest that the prelimbic cortex is only recruited for remote memory recall upon the onset of memory persistence.

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FearMemoryAnimalsFemaleMaleMemory, Long-TermMental RecallMiceMice, Inbred C57BL

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PMID34663694
PMCPMC8525421

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