Lesions of orexin neurons block conditioned place preference for sexual behavior in male rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Di Sebastiano, Andrea R ^a   Wilson Pérez, Hilary E ^b   Lehman, Michael N ^a   Coolen, Lique M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned place aversion; Conditioned place preference; Hypocretin; Hypothalamus; Orexin; Reward; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; OREXIN; OREXIN B; PROTEIN C FOS; SAPORIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATING; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 78651456537     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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