Behavioural and neuronal activation after microinjections of AMPA and NMDA into the perifornical lateral hypothalamus in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 376-386

  Li, Frederick W ^a   Deurveilher, Samuel ^a   Semba, Kazue ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

C Fos; Glutamate; Ingestive behaviour; Locomotion; Orexin; Perifornical

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR AGONIST; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; OREXIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; TISSUE PERFUSION;

ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENES, FOS; GROOMING; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 80051798588     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.06.021     Document Type: Article

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