Chaudhury Dipesh, Manella Laura, Arellanos Adolfo, Escanilla Olga, Cleland Thomas A, Linster Christiane
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Behav Neurosci. 2010 Aug;124(4):490-9. doi: 10.1037/a0020293.
Habituation is a simple form of memory, yet its neurobiological mechanisms are only beginning to be understood in mammals. In the olfactory system, the neural correlates of habituation at a fast experimental timescale involving very short intertrial intervals (tens of seconds) have been shown to depend on synaptic adaptation in olfactory cortex. In contrast, behavioral habituation to odorants on a longer timescale with intertrial intervals of several minutes depends on processes in the olfactory bulb, as demonstrated by pharmacological studies. We here show that behavioral habituation to odorants on this longer timescale has a neuronal activity correlate in the olfactory bulb. Spiking responses of mitral cells in the rat olfactory bulb adapt to, and recover from, repeated odorant stimulation with 5-min intertrial intervals with a time course similar to that of behavioral habituation. Moreover, both the behavioral and neuronal effects of odor habituation require functioning N-methyl-d-aspartic acid receptors in the olfactory bulb.
习惯化是一种简单的记忆形式,但其神经生物学机制在哺乳动物中才刚刚开始被理解。在嗅觉系统中,在涉及非常短的试验间隔(几十秒)的快速实验时间尺度上,习惯化的神经关联已被证明依赖于嗅觉皮层中的突触适应。相比之下,药理学研究表明,在几分钟的试验间隔的较长时间尺度上,对气味剂的行为习惯化依赖于嗅球中的过程。我们在此表明,在这个较长时间尺度上对气味剂的行为习惯化在嗅球中有神经元活动关联。大鼠嗅球中二尖瓣细胞的放电反应会随着5分钟的试验间隔对重复气味剂刺激产生适应并恢复,其时间进程与行为习惯化相似。此外,气味习惯化的行为和神经元效应都需要嗅球中功能性的N-甲基-D-天冬氨酸受体。