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ArticleJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2024

Impaired Dynamics of Positional and Contextual Neural Coding in an Alzheimer's Disease Rat Model.

Athira Nataraj, Annu Kala, Stephanie Lissette Proskauer Pena, Karel Jezek, Karel Blahna

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Article in Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Athira NatarajBiomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, , Prague, Czech Republic.
Annu KalaBiomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, , Prague, Czech Republic.
Stephanie Lissette Proskauer PenaBiomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, , Prague, Czech Republic.
Karel JezekBiomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, , Prague, Czech Republic.
Karel BlahnaBiomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, , Prague, Czech Republic.

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Abstract

Background: The hippocampal representation of space, formed by the collective activity of populations of place cells, is considered as a substrate of spatial memory. Alzheimer's disease (AD), a widespread severe neurodegenerative condition of multifactorial origin, typically exhibits spatial memory deficits among its early clinical signs before more severe cognitive impacts develop. Objective: To investigate mechanisms of spatial memory impairment in a double transgenic rat model of AD. Methods: In this study, we utilized 9-12-month-old double-transgenic TgF344-AD rats and age-matched controls to analyze the spatial coding properties of CA1 place cells. We characterized the spatial memory representation, assessed cells' spatial information content and direction-specific activity, and compared their population coding in familiar and novel conditions. Results: Our findings revealed that TgF344-AD animals exhibited lower precision in coding, as evidenced by reduced spatial information and larger receptive zones. This impairment was evident in maps representing novel environments. While controls instantly encoded directional context during their initial exposure to a novel environment, transgenics struggled to incorporate this information into the newly developed hippocampal spatial representation. This resulted in impairment in orthogonalization of stored activity patterns, an important feature directly related to episodic memory encoding capacity. Conclusions: Overall, the results shed light on the nature of impairment at both the single-cell and population levels in the transgenic AD model. In addition to the observed spatial coding inaccuracy, the findings reveal a significantly impaired ability to adaptively modify and refine newly stored hippocampal memory patterns.

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Alzheimer DiseaseDisease Models, AnimalRats, TransgenicAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorAnimalsCA1 Region, HippocampalHippocampusHumansMaleMemory DisordersRatsRats, Inbred F344Spatial MemoryAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorAlzheimer’s diseaseplace cell directionalityplace field sizespatial memoryTgF344-AD rats

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PMID39177594
PMCPMC11612983

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