Effect of CB1 receptor blockade on food-reinforced responding and associated nucleus accumbens neuronal activity in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 11467-11477

  Hernandez, Giovanni ^a   Cheer, Joseph F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; RIMONABANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FOOD; GAMMA RHYTHM; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SPIKE WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN WAVES; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOOD; MALE; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PIPERIDINES; PYRAZOLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865008175     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1833-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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