Restricted daily consumption of a highly palatable food (chocolate Ensure®) alters striatal enkephalin gene expression

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2592-2598

  Kelley, A E ^a   Will, M J ^a   Steininger, T L ^a,c   Zhang, M ^a,d   Haber, S N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Food motivation; Nucleus accumbens; Opioid peptide; Rat

Indexed keywords

ENKEPHALIN; PREPROENKEPHALIN; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRIATE CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BODY WEIGHT; CACAO; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIETARY SUCROSE; EATING; ENKEPHALINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0345257772     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02991.x     Document Type: Article

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