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- Title
Hippocampal Insulin Resistance Impairs Spatial Learning and Synaptic Plasticity.
- Authors
Grillo, Claudia A.; Piroli, Gerardo G.; Lawrence, Robert C.; Wrighten, Shayna A.; Green, Adrienne J.; Wilson, Steven P.; Sakai, Randall R.; Kelly, Sandra J.; Wilson, Marlene A.; Mott, David D.; Reagan, Lawrence P.
- Abstract
Insulin receptors (IRs) are expressed in discrete neuronal populations in the central nervous system, including the hippocampus. To elucidate the functional role of hippocampal IRs independent of metabolic function, we generated a model of hippocampal-specific insulin resistance using a lentiviral vector expressing an IR antisense sequence (LV-IRAS). LV-IRAS effectively downregulates IR expression in the rat hippocampus without affecting body weight, adiposity, or peripheral glucose homeostasis. Nevertheless, hippocampal neuroplasticity was impaired in LV-IRAS-treated rats. High-frequency stimulation, which evoked robust long-term potentiation (LTP) in brain slices from LV control rats, failed to evoke LTP in LV-IRAS-treated rats. GluN2B subunit levels, as well as the basal level of phosphorylation of GluA1, were reduced in the hippocampus of LV-IRAS rats. Moreover, these deficits in synaptic transmission were associated with impairments in spatial learning. We suggest that alterations in the expression and phosphorylation of glutamate receptor subunits underlie the alterations in LTP and that these changes are responsible for the impairment in hippocampal-dependent learning. Importantly, these learning deficits are strikingly similar to the impairments in complex task performance observed in patients with diabetes, which strengthens the hypothesis that hippocampal insulin resistance is a key mediator of cognitive deficits independent of glycemic control.
- Subjects
HIPPOCAMPUS (Brain); INSULIN resistance; SPATIAL ability; NEUROPLASTICITY; INSULIN receptors; HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE receptors; ANIMAL experimentation; ANIMALS; CELL receptors; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RESEARCH funding; SPATIAL behavior
- Publication
Diabetes, 2015, Vol 64, Issue 11, p3927
- ISSN
0012-1797
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.2337/db15-0596