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Hippocampal train stimulation modulates recallof fear extinction independently of prefrontalcortex synaptic plasticity and lesions

Mélissa Farinelli, Olivier Deschaux, Sandrine Hugues, Aurélie Thevenet and René Garcia¹

Laboratoire de Neurobiologie et Psychopathologie, JE2441, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 06108 Nice, France

It has been shown that long-term potentiation (LTP) develops in the connection between the mediodorsal thalamus (MD) and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and between the hippocampus (HPC) and the mPFC following fear extinction, and correlates with extinction retention. However, recent lesion studies have shown that combined lesions of the MD and mPFC do not interfere with extinction learning and retention, while inactivation of the dorsal HPC disrupts fear extinction memory. Here we found in rats that immediate post-training HPC low-frequency stimulation (LFS) suppressed extinction-related LTP in the HPC–mPFC pathway and induced difficulties in extinction recall. HPC tetanus, applied several hours later, failed to re-establish mPFC LTP but facilitated recall of extinction. Delayed post-training HPC LFS also provoked mPFC depotentiation and difficulties with extinction recall. HPC tetanus abolished these two effects. We also found that damage to the mPFC induced fear return only in rats that received HPC LFS following extinction training. HPC tetanus also reversed this behavioral effect of HPC LFS in lesioned rats. These data suggest that the HPC interacts with the mPFC during fear extinction, but can modulate fear extinction independently of this interaction.

¹ Corresponding author.

E-mail rgarcia{at}unice.fr; fax (33) 492-07-61-62.

Article and publication are at http://www.learnmem.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/lm.204806

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