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MSK1 is required for the beneficial synaptic and cognitive effects of enriched experience across the lifespan
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Morè, Lorenzo, Privitera, Lucia, Cooper, Daniel D., Tsogka, Marianthi, Arthur, J. Simon C. and Frenguelli, Bruno G. F. (2023) MSK1 is required for the beneficial synaptic and cognitive effects of enriched experience across the lifespan. Aging, 15 (13). pp. 6031-6072. doi:10.18632/aging.204833 ISSN 1945-4589.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204833
Abstract
Positive experiences, such as social interaction, cognitive training and physical exercise, have been shown to ameliorate some of the harms to cognition associated with ageing. Animal models of positive interventions, commonly known as environmental enrichment, strongly influence neuronal morphology and synaptic function and enhance cognitive performance. While the profound structural and functional benefits of enrichment have been appreciated for decades, little is known as to how the environment influences neurons to respond and adapt to these positive sensory experiences. We show that adult and aged male wild-type mice that underwent a 10-week environmental enrichment protocol demonstrated improved performance in a variety of behavioural tasks, including those testing spatial working and spatial reference memory, and an enhancement in hippocampal LTP. Aged animals in particular benefitted from enrichment, performing spatial memory tasks at levels similar to healthy adult mice. Many of these benefits, including in gene expression, were absent in mice with a mutation in an enzyme, MSK1, which is activated by BDNF, a growth factor implicated in rodent and human cognition. We conclude that enrichment is beneficial across the lifespan and that MSK1 is required for the full extent of these experience-induced improvements of cognitive abilities, synaptic plasticity and gene expression.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QP Physiology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | |||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Aging -- Physiological aspects, Cognition -- Age factors, Dementia, Neuroplasticity, Memory, Older people -- Health and hygiene, Brain -- Development | |||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Aging | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Impact Journals | |||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1945-4589 | |||||||||||||||
Official Date: | 10 July 2023 | |||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 15 | |||||||||||||||
Number: | 13 | |||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 6031-6072 | |||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.18632/aging.204833 | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 June 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 July 2023 | |||||||||||||||
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