We studied the role of glutamate receptors and reminder in the mechanisms of amnesia maintenance caused by disruption of conditioned food aversion reconsolidation with an antagonist of NMDA glutamate receptor in snails. At the early stage of amnesia (day 3 after induction), injection or NMDA of AMPA glutamate receptor antagonists prior to reminder (presentation of the conditioned food stimulus) led to memory recovery. Reminder alone or injection of antagonists without reminder or after reminder was ineffective. At the late stage of amnesia (day 10), antagonists/reminder had no effect on amnesia maintenance. It was hypothesized that reminder at the early stage of amnesia led to reactivation and reconsolidation of the molecular processes of amnesia including activation NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptors. Injection of antagonists of these receptors prior to reminder led to disruption of reactivation/reconsolidation of amnesia and recovery of the conditioned food aversion memory.
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Translated from Byulleten’ Eksperimental’noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 160, No. 7, pp. 4-9, July, 2015
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Nikitin, V.P., Kozyrev, S.A. & Solntseva, S.V. Reconsolidation of Reminder-Induced Amnesia: Role of NMDA and AMPA Glutamate Receptors. Bull Exp Biol Med 160, 1–5 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10517-015-3083-6
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