Assessing the Role of the Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptor in Motivational Learning and Food Intake

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1058-1065

  Johnson, Alexander W ^a   Canter, Rebecca ^a   Gallagher, Michela ^a   Holland, Peter C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ghrelin; licking microstructure; mice; palatability; Pavlovian to instrumental transfer

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE RECEPTOR; LYSINE; RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; INGESTION; LEARNING; LICKING; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SUGAR INTAKE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GHRELIN; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN;

EID: 70350118711     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016808     Document Type: Article

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