Food hoarding and associated neuronal activation in brain reward circuitry in Mongolian gerbils

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 429-436

  Yang, Hui Di ^a,c   Wang, Qian ^a,c   Wang, Zuoxin ^b   Wang, De Hua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

C Fos; Dopamine; Food deprivation; Food hoarding; NAcc; VTA

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; LEPTIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REWARD CIRCUITRY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD HOARDING; FOOD STORAGE; FOREBRAIN; GERBIL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; EATING; FATS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERBILLINAE; LEPTIN; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; REWARD; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 79959823310     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.04.062     Document Type: Article

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