Natural reward experience alters AMPA and NMDA receptor distribution and function in the nucleus accumbens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Pitchers, Kyle K ^a,b   Schmid, Susanne ^a   Di Sebastiano, Andrea R ^a,b   Wang, Xu ^a   Laviolette, Steven R ^a   Lehman, Michael N ^a,b   Coolen, Lique M ^a,b,c  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; FACILITATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MATING; MORPHOLOGY; MOTIVATION; NATURAL REWARD; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATCH CLAMP; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EXPERIENCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 84859965718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034700     Document Type: Article

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