Central melanocortins modulate mesocorticolimbic activity and food seeking behavior in the rat

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 491-495

  Davis, Jon F ^a,b   Choi, Derrick L ^a,b   Shurdak, Jennifer D ^a,b   Krause, Eric G ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Maureen F ^a,b   Lipton, Jack W ^a   Sakai, Randall R ^a,b   Benoit, Stephen C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Food seeking behavior; Melanocortins; Mesocorticolimbic; Reward

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; MELANOCORTIN; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; LIMBIC CORTEX; LIPID DIET; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DIETARY FATS; DOPAMINE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MELANOCORTINS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SUCROSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 78751642791     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.12.017     Document Type: Article

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