Food motivated behavior of melanocortin-4 receptor knockout mice under a progressive ratio schedule

Peptides

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2829-2835

  Vaughan, C ^a   Moore, M ^b   Haskell Luevano, C ^b   Rowland, N E ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed economy; Food intake; Knockout; Melanocortin 4 receptors; Mice; Operant conditioning; Progressive ratio

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HYPERPHAGIA; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT GAIN; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EATING; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HYPERPHAGIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTIVATION; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 33750066679     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2006.07.008     Document Type: Article

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