Changes in phosphorylation of CREB, ERK, and c-fos induction in rat ventral tegmental area, hippocampus and prefrontal cortex after conditioned place preference induced by chemical stimulation of lateral hypothalamus

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 112-118

  Haghparast, Abbas ^a   Taslimi, Zahra ^a,b   Ramin, Mahmoudreza ^a   Azizi, Pegah ^a   Khodagholi, Farbia ^a   Hassanpour Ezatti, Majid ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

C fos; Conditioned place preference (CPP); CREB; ERK; Hippocampus; Lateral hypothalamus; Prefrontal cortex; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CREB-BINDING PROTEIN; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 79951799265     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.01.045     Document Type: Article

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