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Performance of PAC1-R Heterozygous Mice in Memory Tasks-II

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An involvement of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide-specific receptor type 1 (PAC1-R) in behavioral performance of retrieval of memory upon the stimulation of perception of sensory modality was investigated in mice. Eighteen heterozygous (−/+) transgenic mutant PAC1-R-deficient mice {(−/+) mice} and 18 wild-type (+/+) mice of littermates {(+/+) mice} as a control were used. No homozygous (−/−) transgenic mutant PAC1-R-deficit mouse was bred in our colony. It was observed that; (1) changing a single alley in the multiple mazes interfered with retrieval of memory in both (−/+) mice and (+/+) mice, and they made considerable errors; (2) a rotation of the multiple mazes for 180° in relation to the geomagnetic field made also considerable errors, but in only (+/+) mice and not in (−/+) mice; and (3) an exposure for perception of fear signals made also considerable errors, but in only (+/+) mice and not in (−/+) mice. It is inferred that PAC1-R may play a gating role in passage permitting through perception of geomagnetic orientation and fear signals, but not perception of visual orientation, and it regulates behavioral performance in retrieval of memory in mice.

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The author wishes to express his appreciation to Dr. Akira Arimura, Director of US–Japan Cooperative Biomedical Laboratories for providing PAC1-R-deficit mice for this study and Dr. Tomoji Nakamachi for breeding and genome analysis of PAC1-R-deficit mice.

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Hagino, N. Performance of PAC1-R Heterozygous Mice in Memory Tasks-II. J Mol Neurosci 36, 208–219 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12031-008-9101-7

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