Diurnal rhythms in neural activation in the mesolimbic reward system: Critical role of the medial prefrontal cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2319-2327

  Baltazar, Ricardo M ^a   Coolen, Lique M ^a,b,c   Webb, Ian C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

C Fos; Circadian; Excitotoxic lesion; Rat; Reward

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL LEVEL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REWARD; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

C-FOS; CIRCADIAN; EXCITOTOXIC LESION; RAT; REWARD;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84880365363     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12224     Document Type: Article

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