The role of nucleus accumbens and dorsolateral striatal D2 receptors in active avoidance conditioning

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 254-262

  Boschen, Suelen Lucio ^a   Wietzikoski, Evellyn Claudia ^a,b   Winn, Philip ^c   Cunha, Claudio Da ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE PARANAENSE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active avoidance; Conditioned avoidance response; D2 dopaminergic receptor; Dopamine; Goal directed actions; Habits

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; QUINPIROLE; SULPIRIDE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REACTION TIME; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; MALE; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; QUINPIROLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; SULPIRIDE;

EID: 79960847017     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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