Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506, United States.
Neurosci Lett. 2010 Aug 2;479(3):327-31. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.090.
Previous work has shown high dietary cholesterol can affect learning and memory including rabbit eyeblink conditioning and this effect may be due to increased membrane cholesterol and enhanced hippocampal amyloid beta production. This study investigated whether dietary cholesterol modulates rabbit hippocampal CA1 neuron membrane properties known to be involved in rabbit eyeblink conditioning. Whole-cell current clamp recordings in hippocampal neurons from rabbits fed 2 percent cholesterol or normal chow for 8 weeks revealed changes including decreased after-hyperpolarization amplitudes (AHPs) - an index of membrane excitability shown to be important for rabbit eyeblink conditioning. This index was reversed by adding copper to drinking water - a dietary manipulation that can retard rabbit eyeblink conditioning. Evidence of cholesterol effects on membrane excitability was provided by application of methyl-beta-cyclodextrin, a compound that reduces membrane cholesterol, which increased the excitability of hippocampal CA1 neurons.
先前的研究表明,高膳食胆固醇会影响学习和记忆,包括兔子眨眼条件反射,这种影响可能是由于膜胆固醇增加和海马淀粉样β生成增强所致。本研究探讨了膳食胆固醇是否会调节已知与兔子眨眼条件反射有关的兔子海马 CA1 神经元膜特性。在喂养 2%胆固醇或正常饲料 8 周的兔子的海马神经元中进行全细胞膜片钳记录显示,变化包括后超极化幅度(AHP)减小 - 这是膜兴奋性的一个指标,对于兔子眨眼条件反射很重要。向饮水中添加铜可逆转这一指标 - 这种饮食干预可以延缓兔子眨眼条件反射。胆固醇对膜兴奋性的影响的证据是通过应用甲基-β-环糊精提供的,这是一种可降低膜胆固醇的化合物,可增加海马 CA1 神经元的兴奋性。