PMID- 19389428 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090831 LR - 20121115 IS - 1872-7549 (Electronic) IS - 0166-4328 (Linking) VI - 203 IP - 1 DP - 2009 Oct 12 TI - Habituation-induced neural plasticity in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex mediated by MMP-3. PG - 27-34 LID - 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.04.014 [doi] AB - Head-shake response (HSR) habituation was presently used to investigate the phenomena of spontaneous recovery and neural plasticity. Independent groups of rats were presented with five consecutive habituation sessions separated by inter-session intervals (ISIs) of 2, 24 or 72 h. At the conclusion of testing hippocampus and prefrontal cortex tissue samples were collected for determination of matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP-3:stromelysin-1) expression as a marker of neural plasticity. The results indicated that by the fifth session the 2 h ISI group showed no spontaneous recovery, the 72 h ISI group revealed nearly complete spontaneous recovery; while the 24 h ISI group showed intermediate recovery. MMP-3 expression in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex was elevated in the 2 and 72 h ISI groups, but not in the 24 h group. A second experiment utilized 7-day osmotic pumps to intracerebroventricularly infuse an MMP-3 inhibitor for 6 days. The animals were then tested on the seventh day using the 2 h ISI protocol. Delivery of the MMP-3 inhibitor facilitated spontaneous recovery, thus compromising the animal's ability to appropriately habituate. This effect was accompanied by a significant inhibition of hippocampus and prefrontal cortex MMP-3 expression. These results suggest that elevations in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex MMP-3 expression contribute to this simplest form of learning and may be a mechanism underlying spontaneous recovery. FAU - Wright, John W AU - Wright JW AD - Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4820, United States. wrightjw@wsu.edu FAU - Meighan, Peter C AU - Meighan PC FAU - Brown, Travis E AU - Brown TE FAU - Wiediger, Roberta V AU - Wiediger RV FAU - Sorg, Barbara A AU - Sorg BA FAU - Harding, Joseph W AU - Harding JW LA - eng GR - DA023729/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20090421 PL - Netherlands TA - Behav Brain Res JT - Behavioural brain research JID - 8004872 RN - 0 (Enzyme Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors) RN - EC 3.4.24.- (Matrix Metalloproteinases, Secreted) RN - EC 3.4.24.17 (Matrix Metalloproteinase 3) SB - IM MH - Analysis of Variance MH - Animals MH - Blotting, Western MH - Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology MH - Habituation, Psychophysiologic/drug effects/*physiology MH - Head MH - Hippocampus/drug effects/*physiology MH - Learning/drug effects/physiology MH - Male MH - Matrix Metalloproteinase 3/*metabolism MH - Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors MH - Matrix Metalloproteinases, Secreted/antagonists & inhibitors MH - Neuronal Plasticity/drug effects/*physiology MH - Prefrontal Cortex/drug effects/*physiology MH - Random Allocation MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Time Factors EDAT- 2009/04/25 09:00 MHDA- 2009/09/01 06:00 CRDT- 2009/04/25 09:00 PHST- 2008/05/06 00:00 [received] PHST- 2009/04/09 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2009/04/13 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2009/04/25 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/04/25 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/09/01 06:00 [medline] AID - S0166-4328(09)00245-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.04.014 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Behav Brain Res. 2009 Oct 12;203(1):27-34. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.04.014. Epub 2009 Apr 21.