Stimulus-specific and differential distribution of activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase in the nucleus accumbens core and shell during Pavlovian-instrumental transfer

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 218, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 913-927

  Remus, Merissa L ^a   Thiels, Edda ^a,b,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned stimulus; Immunohistochemistry; MAP kinase; Motivation; Reward

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PAVLOVIAN INSTRUMENTAL TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 84879798370     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0438-x     Document Type: Article

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