Divergent circuitry underlying food reward and intake effects of ghrelin: Dopaminergic VTA-accumbens projection mediates ghrelin's effect on food reward but not food intake

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 73, Issue , 2013, Pages 274-283

  Skibicka, Karolina P ^a   Shirazi, Rozita H ^a   Rabasa Papio, Cristina ^a   Alvarez Crespo, Mayte ^a   Neuber, Corinna ^a   Vogel, Heike ^a   Dickson, Suzanne L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

D1; D2; Dopamine; Food intake; Food motivation; Ghrelin; Operant conditioning; Overeating

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GHRELIN; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPERPHAGIA; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MICROINJECTION; MOTIVATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

D1; D2; DOPAMINE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD MOTIVATION; GHRELIN; OPERANT CONDITIONING; OVEREATING;

ANIMALS; BENZAZEPINES; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EATING; GENE EXPRESSION; GHRELIN; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; REWARD; SALICYLAMIDES; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84885097183     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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