Mu-opioid stimulation in rat prefrontal cortex engages hypothalamic orexin/hypocretin-containing neurons, and reveals dissociable roles of nucleus accumbens and hypothalamus in cortically driven feeding

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 18540-18552

  Mena, Jesus D ^a   Selleck, Ryan A ^a   Baldo, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; ENKEPHALIN [2 DEXTRO ALANINE 4 METHYLPHENYLALANINE 5 GLYCINE]; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN FOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; ENKEPHALIN, ALA(2)-MEPHE(4)-GLY(5)-; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VALINE;

EID: 84887829527     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3323-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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