Chronic wheel running affects cocaine-induced c-Fos expression in brain reward areas in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 261, Issue , 2014, Pages 71-78

  Zlebnik, Natalie E ^a   Hedges, Valerie L ^a   Carroll, Marilyn E ^a   Meisel, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

C Fos; Cocaine; Environmental enrichment; Exercise; Reward; Wheel running

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUTAMEN; RAT; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREADMILL TEST; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

C-FOS; COCAINE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXERCISE; REWARD; WHEEL RUNNING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REWARD; RUNNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84891129760     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.12.012     Document Type: Article

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