• Jinming Zhang, Lizi Zhang, Yuan Chang, Qiaofen Gu, Junmin Zhang, Zhou Zhu, Zhaoqiang Qian, Chunling Wei, Zhiqiang Liu, Wei Ren, and Jing Han.
• Key Lab of Modern Teaching Technology, Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Normal University, China.
• Neuroscience. 2020 May 1; 433: 174-183.

AbstractSleep loss or insomnia is among the contributing factors of cognitive deficit, the underlying mechanisms of which remain largely elusive. The endocannabinoid (eCB) system plays a role in sleep, while it is unknown if it is involved in the regulation of memory retrieval by sleep deprivation. In addition, it still controversial how rapid-eye-movement sleep deprivation (REMSD) affects the spatial memory of adolescent mice. Here, we found that 24-h REMSD impairs spatial memory retrieval of adolescent mice in an object-place recognition task, which was rescued by NESS0327, a neutral cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1R) antagonist. Mechanistically, REMSD induced eCB-mediated short-term and long-term synaptic plasticity changing including depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition (DSI) in the pyramidal neurons of the hippocampus, in which long-term synaptic plasticity changing was rescued by NESS0327. REMSD downregulated monoacylglycerol lipase, a hydrolase for the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), suggesting the involvement of eCB accumulation and the consequent synaptic plasticity in REMSD-elicited memory impairment in adolescent mice. These findings shed light on the role of sleep disorders in learning and memory deficit of adolescents.Copyright © 2020 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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