The vagus nerve promotes memory via septo-hippocampal acetylcholine: Implications for obesity-induced cognitive dysfunction
Tierno Lauer, L.; Decarie-Spain, L.; Hayes, A. M. R.; Suarez, A. N.; Bashaw, A. G.; Klug, M. E.; Kao, A. E.; Cheng, R.; Rea, J. J.; Subramanian, K. S.; Nourbash, A. C.; Donohue, K. N.; Schier, L. A.; Myers, K. P.; Kanoski, S. E.
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The vagus nerve relays critical metabolic information between the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and the brain. Recent findings highlight a role for vagus nerve-mediated gut-brain signaling in regulating higher-order cognitive processes, although the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that nutrient consumption promotes hippocampal-dependent memory function via vagus nerve-mediated acetylcholine (ACh) release in the dorsal hippocampus (HPCd) from medial septum (MS) neurons. In vivo analyses reveal that HPCd ACh release is engaged during nutrient consumption, and that this response is abolished in animals that received MS cholinergic neuron ablation, subdiaphragmatic vagotomy (SDV), or early-life Western Diet (WD) maintenance. MS cholinergic neuron ablation, SDV, and early-life WD also impaired memory for meal location, suggesting that this gut-brain pathway functions to encode memories for eating events. Collectively, results identify a neurobiological mechanism whereby nutrient consumption promotes memory function, and reveal that disruption of this vagal-brain signaling system mediates WD-associated memory impairments.
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