The effects of VTA NMDA receptor antagonism on reward-related learning and associated c-fos expression in forebrain

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 424-432

  Ranaldi, Robert ^a,b   Kest, Karen ^a   Zellner, Margaret R ^a   Lubelski, Daniel ^b   Muller, Jonathan ^b   Cruz, Yvonne ^b   Saliba, Michelle ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

AP 5; Caudate; Conditioning; Food; Glutamate; Motivation; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Reward; VTA

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; DOPAMINE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 78149408625     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.08.026     Document Type: Article

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