Evidence that the nucleus accumbens shell, ventral pallidum, and lateral hypothalamus are components of a lateralized feeding circuit

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 548-554

  Stratford, Thomas R ^a   Wirtshafter, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Eating; Food intake; Ingestive behavior; NeuN; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INGESTION; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VENTRAL PALLIDUM;

ANIMALS; EATING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 81355135474     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.10.014     Document Type: Article

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