The effects of D1 or D2 dopamine receptor antagonism in the medial preoptic area, ventral pallidum, or nucleus accumbens on the maternal retrieval response and other aspects of maternal behavior in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1588-1604

  Numan, Michael ^a   Numan, Marilyn J ^a   Pliakou, Natalia ^a   Stolzenberg, Danielle S ^a   Mullins, Olivia J ^a   Murphy, Jennifer M ^a   Smith, Carl D ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

D1 receptor; Maternal behavior; Medial preoptic area; Nucleus accumbens; Ventral pallidum

Indexed keywords

8 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL HYDROGEN MALEATE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ETICLOPRIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREOPTIC AREA; PUERPERIUM; RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 31344438591     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.6.1588     Document Type: Article

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