Diet-induced obesity blunts the behavioural effects of ghrelin: Studies in a mouse-progressive ratio task

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 173-181

  Finger, Beate C ^a   Dinan, Timothy G ^a,b   Cryan, John F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

High fat diet; Operant; Reward

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; GHRELIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIET, HIGH-FAT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GHRELIN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBESITY; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN; REWARD; RNA, MESSENGER; SUCROSE;

EID: 84858442076     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2468-0     Document Type: Article

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