Fos-like immunoreactivity in the caudal diencephalon and brainstem following lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 275-279

  Arvanitogiannis, Andreas ^a   Flores, Cecilia ^a   Shizgal, Peter ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation reward; Hindbrain; Immediate early genes; Medial forebrain bundle; Midbrain; Pedunculopontine nucleus; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SELF STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; REWARD; SELF STIMULATION;

EID: 0030723273     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00065-X     Document Type: Article

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