TY - JOUR
T1 - Insulin signaling and dietary restriction differentially influence the decline of learning and memory with age
AU - Kauffman, Amanda L.
AU - Ashraf, Jasmine M.
AU - orces-Zimmerman, M. Ryan
AU - Landis, Jessica N.
AU - Murphy, Coleen T.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - Of all the age-related declines, memory loss is one of the most devastating. While conditions that increase longevity have been identified, the effects of these longevity-promoting factors on learning and memory are unknown. Here we show that the C. elegans Insulin/IGF-1 receptor mutant daf-2 improves memory performance early in adulthood and maintains learning ability better with age but, surprisingly, demonstrates no extension in long-term memory with age. By contrast, eat-2 mutants, a model of Dietary Restriction (DR), exhibit impaired long-term memory in young adulthood but maintain this level of memory longer with age. We find that crh-1, the C. elegans homolog of the CREB transcription factor, is required for longterm associative memory, but not for learning or short-term memory. The expression of crh-1 declines with age and differs in the longevity mutants, and CREB expression and activity correlate with memory performance. Our results suggest that specific longevity treatments have acute and long-term effects on cognitive functions that decline with age through their regulation of rate-limiting genes required for learning and memory.
AB - Of all the age-related declines, memory loss is one of the most devastating. While conditions that increase longevity have been identified, the effects of these longevity-promoting factors on learning and memory are unknown. Here we show that the C. elegans Insulin/IGF-1 receptor mutant daf-2 improves memory performance early in adulthood and maintains learning ability better with age but, surprisingly, demonstrates no extension in long-term memory with age. By contrast, eat-2 mutants, a model of Dietary Restriction (DR), exhibit impaired long-term memory in young adulthood but maintain this level of memory longer with age. We find that crh-1, the C. elegans homolog of the CREB transcription factor, is required for longterm associative memory, but not for learning or short-term memory. The expression of crh-1 declines with age and differs in the longevity mutants, and CREB expression and activity correlate with memory performance. Our results suggest that specific longevity treatments have acute and long-term effects on cognitive functions that decline with age through their regulation of rate-limiting genes required for learning and memory.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000372
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000372
M3 - Article
C2 - 20502519
AN - SCOPUS:77952923018
VL - 8
JO - PLoS Biology
JF - PLoS Biology
SN - 1544-9173
IS - 5
ER -