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A Lightweight Drive Implant for Chronic Tetrode Recordings in Juvenile Mice

In vivo electrophysiology provides unparalleled insight into the sub-second-level circuit dynamics of the intact brain and represents a method of ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center

A growing body of human literature implicates KIBRA in memory and neurodevelopmental disorders. Memory and the cellular substrates supporting adaptive cognition change across development. Using an inducible KIBRA knockout mouse, we demonstrate that adult-onset deletion of KIBRA in forebrain neurons impairs long-term spatial memory and long-term potentiation (LTP). These LTP deficits correlate with adult-selective decreases in extrasynaptic AMPA receptors under basal conditions, and we identify a role for KIBRA in LTP-induced AMPAR upregulation. In contrast, juvenile-onset deletion of KIBRA in forebrain neurons did not affect LTP and had minimal effects on basal AMPAR expression. LTP did not increase AMPAR protein expression in juvenile WT mice, providing a potential explanation for juvenile resilience to KIBRA deletion. These data suggest that KIBRA serves a unique role in adult hippocampal function through regulation of basal and activity-dependent AMPAR proteostasis that supports synaptic plasticity.

KIBRA regulates activity-induced AMPA receptor expression and synaptic plasticity in an age-dependent manner.

We describe a novel micro-drive design, surgical implantation procedure, and post-surgery recovery strategy that allows for chronic field and single-unit recordings from up to sixteen brain regions simultaneously in juvenile and adolescent mice across a critical developmental window from p20 to p60 and beyond.

Lenora J. Volk

Department of Neuroscience,
O’Donnell Brain Institute,
Department of Psychiatry

UT Southwestern Medical Center

A Lightweight Drive Implant for Chronic Tetrode Recordings in Juvenile Mice

Lenora J. Volk

Department of Neuroscience,O’Donnell Brain Institute,Department of Psychiatry

UT Southwestern Medical Center

A Lightweight Drive Implant for Chronic Tetrode Recordings in Juvenile Mice

Department of Neuroscience,
O’Donnell Brain Institute,
Department of Psychiatry