A food-associated CS activates c-Fos in VTA DA neurons and elicits conditioned approach

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 150-157

  Kest, Karen ^a   Cruz, Ivonne ^b   Chen, Dan Hong ^b   Galaj, Ewa ^a   Ranaldi, Robert ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

C Fos; Conditioned stimulus (CS); Dopamine; Locomotor activity; Reward omission; Reward related learning; Stress; Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH); Ventral tegmental area (VTA)

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LABELING; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOTSHOCK; ILLUMINATION; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84865344473     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.07.044     Document Type: Article

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