Dopamine signaling in the medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala is required for the acquisition of fructose-conditioned flavor preferences in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 500-507

  Malkusz, Danielle C ^a   Banakos, Theodore ^b   Mohamed, Andrew ^b   Vongwattanakit, Tracy ^b   Malkusz, Gina ^b   Saeed, Shermeen ^b   Martinez, Stewart ^b   Bohn, Tara ^b   Mahmud, Fizza ^b   Liss, Cami ^b   Rozvi, Abraham ^b   Touzani, Khalid ^c   Sclafani, Anthony ^a,c   Bodnar, Richard J ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Flavor flavor learning; Nucleus accumbens shell; Raclopride; Saccharin; SCH23390; Sweet taste

Indexed keywords

8 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL HYDROGEN MALEATE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; FRUCTOSE; RACLOPRIDE; SACCHARIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FLAVOR; FRUCTOSE CONDITIONED FLAVOR PREFERENCE; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE PREFERENCE; TRAINING;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BENZAZEPINES; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FOOD PREFERENCES; FRUCTOSE; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RACLOPRIDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862637497     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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