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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2017 Mar 21;45:24–31. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2017.02.014

Table 1.

Summary of miRNAs including their functions and targets that are discussed in this review.

miRNA Target Function Species studied Reference
miR-1000 VGlut glutamate release, apoptosis Drosophila Verma, P., et al., (2015)
miR-124 NA NMDAR-LTP, spatial learning Rodent Yang, Y., et al., (2012)
miR-124 CREB long-term synaptic facilitation in sensory-motor synapse Aplysia Rajasethupathy, P., et al. (2009)
miR-124 GluA2 calcium-permeable AMPARs and homeostatic plasticity Rodent Hou, Q., et al. (2015)
miR-124,-9,-34 NA spatial learning and working memory Rodent Malmevik, J., et al. (2016)
miR-125a PSD-95 dendritic spine density and dendritic branch Rodent Muddashetty, R.S., et al. (2011)
miR-125b GluN2A dendritic spine morphology Rodent Edbauer, D., et al., (2010)
miR-128b RCS fear extinction Rodent Lin, Q., et al., (2011)
miR-129 Kv1.1 dendrtic regulation of Voltage-gated potassium channel Kv1.1 expression Rodent Sosanya, N. M., et al. (2013)
miR-132 p250GAP synaptic transmission, dendritic spine formation and dendrite morphogenesis Rodent Wayman, G. A., et al. (2008), Impey, S., et al. (2010)
miR-132 NA LTP and LTD in perirhinal cortex, short-term recognition memory Rodent Scott, H. L., et al. (2012)
miR-132 NA short-term synaptic plasticity Rodent Lambert, T.J., et al., (2010)
miR-132 Rasa1 dorsal root ganglion axon growth Rodent Hancock, M.L., et al.,(2014)
miR-132/212 NA basal synaptic transmission and LTP in hippocampus and neocortex Rodent Remenyi, J., et al. (2013)
miR-134 Pumilio-2 dendritic morphology, homeostatic synapse elimination Rodent Fiore, R., et al. (2009; 2014)
miR-134 Limk1 hippocampal dendtic spine morphogenesis Rodent Schratt, G. M., et al. (2006)
miR-134 CREB LTP and contexual fear memory Rodent Gao, J., et al. (2010)
miR-137 GluA1 AMPAR-mediated synaptic transmission, mGluR-LTD Rodent Olde Loohuis, N. F., et al. (2015)
miR-137 synaptotagmi n-1 presynaptic vesicle release, mossy fiber LTP, contextual fear memory Rodent, human Siegert, S., et al. (2015)
miR-138 APT1 morphology of dendritic spines in hippocampal neurons Rodent Siegel, G., et al. (2009)
miR-146a-5p Map1b AMPAR-mediated synaptic transmission, AMPA receptor endocytosis Rodent Chen, Y. L. and C. K. Shen (2013)
miR-181C NA neurite sprouting and synaptogenesis Rodent Kos, A., et al. (2016)
miR-182 cortactin, Rac1 amygdala-dependent long-term memory formation Rodent Griggs, E. M., et al. (2013)
miR-183/96/182 HDAC9 long-term object memory Rodent Woldemichael, B.T., et al., (2016)
miR-185 NA dendrtic spine morphology Rodent Xu, B., et al. (2013)
miR-188-5p neuropilin-2 dendritic spine density, synaptic transmission, Rodent Lee, K., et al. (2012)
miR-191, miR-135 Tmod2, Cplx1/2 NMDAR-LTD and the associated dendritic spine remodeling Rodent Hu, Z., et al. (2014)
miR-22 CPEB long-term synaptic facilitation in sensory-motor synapse Aplysia Fiumara, F., et al. (2015)
miR-223 GluN2B and GluA2 mEPSC, contexual fear memory Rodent Harraz, M.M., et al. (2012)
miR-26a, miR-384-5p RSK3 NMDAR-LTP and the associated dendritic spine remodeling Rodent Gu, Q. H., et al. (2015)
miR-29a/b Arpc3 dendritic spine morphology Rodent Lippi, G., et al. (2011)
miR-33 NA contextual fear memory Rodent Jovasevic, V., et al., (2015)
miR-485 SV2A homoestatic plasticity, dendritic spine density, synaptic transmission Rodent Cohen, J. E., et al. (2011)
miR-501-3p GluA1 dendritic AMPAR expression, dendritic spine remodeling during NMDAR-LTD Rodent Hu, Z., et al. (2015)
miR-92 KCC2, CPEB3, MEF2D contextual fear memory, dendritic spine density Rodent Vetere, G., et al. (2014)
miR-932 Act5C long term memory recall, but not memory acquisition during olfactory learning Honeybee Cristino, A. S., et al. (2014)