A short-term memory trace persists for days in the mouse hippocampus

Maha E. Wally; Masanori Nomoto; Kareem Abdou; Emi Murayama; Kaoru Inokuchi

doi:10.1038/s42003-022-04167-1

Communications Biology (Nov 2022)

A short-term memory trace persists for days in the mouse hippocampus

Maha E. Wally,
Masanori Nomoto,
Kareem Abdou,
Emi Murayama,
Kaoru Inokuchi

Affiliations

Maha E. Wally: Research Center for Idling Brain Science, University of Toyama
Masanori Nomoto: Research Center for Idling Brain Science, University of Toyama
Kareem Abdou: Research Center for Idling Brain Science, University of Toyama
Emi Murayama: Research Center for Idling Brain Science, University of Toyama
Kaoru Inokuchi: Research Center for Idling Brain Science, University of Toyama

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04167-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Short-term memory (STM) forms a protein synthesis-, NMDAR- and NREM sleep-dependent engram which lasts at least 3 days in the mouse hippocampus following a novel object location task, suggesting that STM is not completely lost within hours.

Published in Communications Biology

ISSN: 2399-3642 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General)
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsbio/

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