Leticia Ramírez-Lugo, Sergio Zavala-Vega, Rodrigo Pedroza-Llinas, Luis Núñez-Jaramillo, Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni
Cortical glutamatergic activity is known to be important for memory formation in different learning tasks. For example, glutamate activity in the insular cortex plays an important role in aversive taste memory formation by signaling the unconditioned stimulus. However, the role of glutamate in the insular cortex in appetitive taste learning has remained poorly studied. Therefore, we considered the function of glutamate in attenuation of neophobia, a model of appetitive taste recognition memory. For this purpose, we performed infusions of vehicle, glutamate, a specific mGluR1 antagonist (AIDA) or a combination of glutamate and AIDA at 0 or 30 min, and glutamate or vehicle at 60 min after novel saccharin consumption...
May 1, 2015: Behavioural Brain Research