Opioid modulation of socially transmitted and spontaneous food preferences in female mice

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 277-285

  Moles, A ^a   Valsecchi, P ^a   Cooper, S J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food preferences; Mice; Naloxone; Naltrexone; Opioids; Social transmission

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; NALTREXONE; OPIATE PEPTIDE; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CACAO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TASTE;

EID: 0032976032     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(98)00031-X     Document Type: Article

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