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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 15, 2001, 21(6):2143-2149

NMDA and AMPA Antagonist Infusions into the Ventral Striatum Impair Different Steps of Spatial Information Processing in a Nonassociative Task in Mice

Pascal Roullet^{1, 2, 3}, Francesca Sargolini^{1, 2, 3}, Alberto Oliverio¹, and Andrea Mele¹

¹ Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Roma "La Sapienza," I-00185, Rome, Italy, ² Laboratoire d'Ethologie et Cognition Animale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ERS 2041, 31062 Toulouse, France, and ³ Oasi Maria SS, 94018 Troina, Italy

Most of the research on ventral striatal functions has been focused on their role in modulating reward and motivation. More recently, a possible role of this structure in cognitive functions has been suggested. However, very little information is available on the involvement of the nucleus accumbens in the different stages of the consolidation process. In this study, the effect of focal injections of AP-5 and DNQX, competitive antagonists at the NMDA and AMPA receptors, respectively, was examined in a nonassociative task designed to estimate the ability of mice to react to spatial changes. The task consists of placing the animals in an open field containing five objects; after three sessions of habituation, their reactivity to object displacement was examined 24 hr later.

AP-5 injections administered after training impaired the ability of mice to detect the spatial novelty but did not affect response when injected 120 min after training or before testing. On the contrary, DNQX did not affect response when administered immediately or 120 min after training but did impair spatial discrimination when administered before training or testing. These data demonstrate a double dissociation between glutamate receptor subtypes, such that accumbens NMDA receptors are important for consolidation and not ongoing discrimination of spatial information, whereas AMPA receptors have an opposite role in these processes.

Key words: nucleus accumbens; glutamate; consolidation; spatial learning; DNQX; AP-5

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