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Main olfactory bulb reconfiguration by prolonged passive olfactory experience correlates with increased brain-derived neurotrophic factor and improved innate olfaction.
European Journal of Neuroscience 2022 March
The main olfactory bulb (MOB) is highly plastic and constantly reconfiguring its function and structure depending on sensory experience. Despite the extensive evidence of anatomical, functional and behavioural changes in the olfactory system induced by highly variable olfactory experiences, it is still unknown whether prolonged passive odour experience could reconfigure the MOB at its input and network activity levels and whether these changes impact innate olfaction. Here, by measuring odour-induced glomerular activation, MOB network activity and innate olfactory behaviours, we described a profound MOB reconfiguration induced by prolonged passive olfactory experience in adult animals that impacts MOB input integration at the glomerular layer including an increase in the activated glomerular area and signal intensity, which is combined with a refinement in the number of activated glomeruli and less-overlapped glomerular maps. We also found that prolonged passive olfactory experience dramatically changes MOB population activity in the presence and absence of odours, which is reflected as a decrease in slow oscillations (<12 Hz) and an increase in fast oscillations (>12 Hz). All these functional changes in awake and anaesthetized mice correlate with an increase in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and with improved innate olfactory responses such as habituation/dishabituation and innate preference/avoidance. Our study shows that prolonged passive olfactory experience in adult animals produces a dramatic reconfiguration of the MOB network, possibly driven by BDNF, that improves innate olfactory responses.
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