Adolescent gain in positive valence of a socially relevant stimulus: Engagement of the mesocorticolimbic reward circuitry

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 457-468

  Bell, Margaret R ^a   De Lorme, Kayla C ^a   Figueira, Rayson J ^a   Kashy, Deborah A ^a   Sisk, Cheryl L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned place preference; Dopamine; Pheromone; Puberty; Syrian hamster

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; HAMSTER; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFRALIMBIC MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; INTERFASCICULAR VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VAGINAL SECRETION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CRICETINAE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; NERVE NET; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; REWARD; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84873312479     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12058     Document Type: Article

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