Publication: Brain IGF-I regulates LTP, spatial memory, and sexual dimorphic behavior
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AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-110356RB-I00/ES/
AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-104376RB-I00/ES/
AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-106579RB-I00/ES/
AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/BES-2017-080303
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Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) exerts multiple actions, yet the role of IGF-I from different sources is poorly understood. Here, we explored the functional and behavioral consequences of the conditional deletion of Igf-I in the nervous system (Igf-I¿/¿), and demonstrated that long-term potentiation was impaired in hippocampal slices. Moreover, Igf-I¿/¿ mice showed spatial memory deficits in the Morris water maze, and the significant sex-dependent differences displayed by Igf-ICtrl/Ctrl mice disappeared in Igf-I¿/¿ mice in the open field and rota-rod tests. Brain Igf-I deletion disorganized the granule cell layer of the dentate gyrus (DG), and it modified the relative expressions of GAD and VGLUT1, which are preferentially localized to inhibitory and excitatory presynaptic terminals. Furthermore, Igf-I deletion altered protein modules involved in receptor trafficking, synaptic proteins, and proteins that functionally interact with estrogen and androgen metabolism. Our findings indicate that brain IGF-I is crucial for long-term potentiation, and that it is involved in the regulation of spatial memory and sexual dimorphic behaviors, possibly by maintaining the granule cell layer structure and the stability of synaptic-related protein modules.
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