Comparison of the MK-801-induced appetitive extinction deficit with pressing for reward and associated pERK1/2 staining in prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 194-202

  Holahan, Matthew R ^a   Westby, Erin P ^a   Albert, Katrina ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Infralimbic cortex; Instrumental learning; NMDA; Nucleus accumbens; Phosphorylated ERK; Prelimbic cortex

Indexed keywords

DIZOCILPINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD;

EID: 84855245643     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.11.044     Document Type: Article

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