Which cue to "Want?" central amygdala opioid activation enhances and focuses incentive salience on a prepotent reward cue

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6500-6513

  Mahler, Stephen V ^a,b   Berridge, Kent C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENKEPHALIN[2 DEXTRO ALANINE 4 METHYLPHENYLALANINE 5 GLYCINE]; METAL; MUSCIMOL; OPIATE; SUCROSE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; MICROINJECTION; MOTIVATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SNIFFING; STIMULUS;

AMYGDALA; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; EATING; ENKEPHALIN, ALA(2)-MEPHE(4)-GLY(5)-; FEMALE; GABA AGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTIVATION; MUSCIMOL; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 66249140583     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3875-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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