Dietary conditions and highly palatable food access alter rat cannabinoid receptor expression and binding density

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 720-726

  Bello, Nicholas T ^a   Coughlin, Janelle W ^b   Redgrave, Graham W ^b   Ladenheim, Ellen E ^b   Moran, Timothy H ^b   Guarda, Angela S ^b  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binge eating disorder; Bulimia; Cannabis; Cnr1; Endocannabinoid; Food restriction

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOREBRAIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VEGETABLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; BULIMIA; CANNABINOIDS; CYCLOHEXANOLS; DIET; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD PREFERENCES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; NODOSE GANGLION; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; RNA, MESSENGER; TRITIUM;

EID: 80155211002     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.09.021     Document Type: Article

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