Early life handling decreases serotonin turnover in the nucleus accumbens and affects feeding behavior of adult rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 190-196

  Portella, A K ^a,b   Silveira, P P ^b   Diehl, L A ^a   Crema, L M ^a   Clemente, Z ^a   Peres, W ^a,c   Costa, G ^d   Scorza, C ^d   Quillfeldt, J A ^a   Dalmaz, C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

5 HT; Imipramine; Neonatal handling; Obesity; Sweet tasting ingesta; Wistar rat

Indexed keywords

IMIPRAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); IMIPRAMINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 77749299390     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20420     Document Type: Article

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