Long-term cognitive enrichment affects opioid receptor expression in the amygdala of domestic pigs

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-83

  Kalbe, C ^a   Puppe, B ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Animal welfare; Food rewarded learning; Hypothalamus; MRNA expression; Neuropeptide Y 5 receptor; Opioid receptor; Real time PCR; Sus scrofa

Indexed keywords

BRAIN RECEPTOR; DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y5 RECEPTOR; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REWARD; STIMULUS; SWINE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; COGNITION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEARNING; MALE; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, DELTA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, KAPPA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REWARD; RNA, MESSENGER; SUS SCROFA; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 75749109384     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2009.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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