Fos expression in the prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum after exposure to a free-operant timing schedule

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 273-279

  Valencia Torres, L ^a   Olarte Sanchez C M ^a   Body, S ^a   Cheung, T H C ^a   Fone, K C F ^a   Bradshaw, C M ^a   Szabadi, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fos expression; Free operant psychophysical procedure; Interval timing behaviour; Nucleus accumbens; Orbital prefrontal cortex; Rat; Temporal differentiation; Variable interval schedule; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; CELL COUNT; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865566083     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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