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Hippocampal Subregion Transcriptomic Profiles Associated with Age-Related Changes in Spatial Pattern Separation


ABSTRACT: Previous studies of age-related transcriptional changes indicate that cognitive impairments are associated with differentially expressed genes DEGs linked to defined neural systems; however, studies that examine multiple regions of the hippocampus fail to find major links between behavior and transcription in the dentate gyrus DG. The DG is implicated in pattern separation PS and exhibits multiple age-related changes that may affect PS performance. We hypothesize that an age-related decline in PS performance is associated with distinct changes in transcriptional profile, most strongly within the DG compared to other hippocampal subregions. We used a water maze beacon discrimination task to characterize PS in young 5 mo and middle-age 12 mo male F344 rats, followed by a spatial reference memory test. Middle-age rats showed consistent deficits in discriminating two identical beacons compared to young. Reference memory was not different between these two age groups. Interestingly, with increasing spatial overlap between the cues, older animals appeared to compensate for impaired PS performance though greater reliance on spatial reference memory. mRNA sequencing of hippocampal subregions DG, CA1, and CA3 indicated that the DG of middle-age rats expressed more genes correlated with PS performance. In contrast, reliance on a spatial reference memory was associated with differential expression of genes in regions CA1 and CA3. These results indicate that the beacon task is sensitive to PS impairment as early as middle-age, and distinct gene profiles are observed in neural circuits that underlie different strategies used to solve the task.

ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus

PROVIDER: GSE140420 | GEO | 2020/05/22

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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