Increase of the aversive value of taste stimuli following ibotenic acid lesion of the central amygdaloid nucleus in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-142

  Touzani, Khalid ^a   Taghzouti, Khalid ^b   Velley, Lydia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Body weight; Central amygdaloid nucleus; Ibotenic acid lesion; Lateral hypothalamus; Palatability; Quinine; Saccharin; Water intake

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID; QUININE; SACCHARIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE AVERSION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DRINKING; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; QUININE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; SACCHARIN; TASTE;

EID: 0030693742     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)02273-5     Document Type: Article

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