The effects of rewarding ventral tegmental area stimulation and environmental enrichment on lipopolysaccharide-induced sickness behavior and cytokine expression in female rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1217, Issue , 2008, Pages 50-61

  Kentner, A C ^a   Takeuchi, A ^b   James, J S ^a   Miki, T ^b   Seino, S ^b   Hayley, S ^c   Bielajew, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation reward; Cytokine; Environmental enrichment; Lipopolysaccharide; Medial forebrain bundle; Psychoneuroimmunology; Sickness behavior; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; ENDOTOXIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MALAISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR GENE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LETHARGY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; PILOERECTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REWARD; RNA, MESSENGER; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 45449110195     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.04.041     Document Type: Article

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