Leptin signaling in the medial nucleus tractus solitarius reduces food seeking and willingness to work for food

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 605-613

  Kanoski, Scott E ^a   Alhadeff, Amber L ^b   Fortin, Samantha M ^c   Gilbert, Jennifer R ^b   Grill, Harvey J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

conditioned place preference; hindbrain; NTS; obesity; reward; satiation

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; INJECTION SITE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; WORK;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD PREFERENCES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LEPTIN; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892676216     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.235     Document Type: Article

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