日本薬理学会年会要旨集
Online ISSN : 2435-4953
第96回日本薬理学会年会
セッションID: 96_2-B-P-151
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恐怖記憶形成に関与するシナプスの検出法の開発
*大西 泰地坂本 寛和大久保 洋平並木 繁行廣瀬 謙造
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キーワード: memory, synapse
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In the auditory cued fear conditioning, memories are stored in synapses between engram neurons, which increased activity during the memory formation. Although molecular imaging of memory-related synapses contributes to deciphering the molecular basis of memory, there is no established method for visualizing them. In this study, we developed a method to selectively visualize synapses between engram neurons, using the c-fos promoter-driven Tet-On system. Tag-fused synaptophysin (tagSyp) and FingR.PSD95 were expressed in presynaptic auditory cortex neurons and postsynaptic lateral amygdala neurons, respectively, in an activity-dependent manner. We found that the number of synapses positive for both tagSyp and FingR.PSD95 in the lateral amygdala was 15-fold higher in mice with cued fear conditioning than in control mice. Thus, we concluded that synapses both positive for tagSyp and FingR.PSD95 correspond to memory-related synapses. Furthermore, combining this method with immunohistochemistry, we found greater amounts of several kinds of synaptic molecules accumulate in memory-related synapses compared to other synapses. It is expected that our method enables comprehensive analysis of molecular changes in synapses induced by fear memory formation.

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