The hippocampal formation has a well-known role in contextual fear conditioning. The dorsal subiculum connects the hippocampus to the entorhinal cortex through pathways that seemingly rely on NMDA-dependent synaptic plasticity. The role of the dorsal subiculum in contextual fear conditioning retrieval, but not acquisition, has been previously reported. However, most of the critical biological phenomena involved in memory formation occur in the consolidation phase. The present study aimed to assess the effects of intra-dorsal subiculum muscimol or AP5 infusion on contextual fear conditioning consolidation. Our data show that dorsal subiculum integrity, as well as NMDA transmission in this region, seem to be necessary for contextual fear conditioning consolidation.
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