Involvement of NMDA and AMPA/KA receptors in the nucleus accumbens core in instrumental learning guided by reward-predictive cues

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1689-1702

  Giertler, Christian ^a   Bohn, Ines ^a   Hauber, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Instrumental learning; Nucleus accumbens; Rat; Reaction time; Reward prediction

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; AMPA RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ANIMALS; CUES; FORECASTING; LEARNING; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, KAINIC ACID; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REWARD;

EID: 18444402791     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.03983.x     Document Type: Article

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