作者: Lindsey C. Vedder , Lisa M. Savage
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摘要: Thiamine deficiency (TD), commonly associated with chronic alcoholism, leads to diencephalic damage, hippocampal dysfunction, and spatial learning memory deficits. We show a decrease in the magnitude of long-term potentiation (LTP) paired-pulse facilitation (PPF) at CA3-CA1 synapses, independent sex, following damage induced by TD rats. Thus, despite lack extensive cell loss, brain down-regulates plastic processes within hippocampus, likely contributing impaired hippocampal-dependent behaviors. However, both measures plasticity (LTP, PPF) were restored brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), revealing an avenue for neural behavioral recovery damage.