To press or not to press? Differential receptor expression and response to novelty in rats learning an operant response for reward

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-191

  Pickering, Chris ^a   Avesson, Lotta ^b   Lindblom, Jonas ^b   Liljequist, Sture ^a   Schiöth, Helgi B ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Gene expression; Hippocampus; Instrumental learning; Lever press response; mRNA; Open field; Operant behavior; Prefrontal cortex; qPCR; Reward; Wistar rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA 3; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA 5; ALPHA 2A ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 2B ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; BRAIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 1; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 2; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 3; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SACCHARIN; SEROTONIN 1B RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 2A RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEREDITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REWARD; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHARIN; SELF ADMINISTRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845919507     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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