Brain reinforcement system function is ghrelin dependent: Studies in the rat using pharmacological fMRI and intracranial self-stimulation

Addiction Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 908-919

  Wellman, Paul J ^a   Clifford, P Shane ^a   Rodriguez, Juan A ^a   Hughes, Samuel ^a   Di Francesco, Carla ^b   Melotto, Sergio ^b   Tessari, Michela ^b   Corsi, Mauro ^b   Bifone, Angelo ^b,c   Gozzi, Alessandro ^b,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GSK   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Addiction; dopamine; food intake; ghrelin; phMRI; reward

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; NITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SUBCORTEX; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; APPETITE STIMULANTS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EATING; GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF STIMULATION;

EID: 84866353786     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2011.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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