A Morphine-Paired Environment Alters c-Fos Expression in the Forebrain of Rats Displaying Conditioned Place Preference or Aversion

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1078-1086

  Guo, Ning ^a   Garcia, Meredith M ^a   Harlan, Richard E ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; c Fos; conditioned place aversion; striatum; thalamus

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; PROTEIN C FOS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; FOREBRAIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; THALAMUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MORPHINE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NARCOTICS; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 54049152894     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012595     Document Type: Article

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