Effects of an early experience of reward through maternal contact or its denial on the dopaminergic system of the rat brain

Neuroscience

Volumn 269, Issue , 2014, Pages 11-20

  Raftogianni, A ^a   Stamatakis, A ^a   Diamantopoulou, A ^a   Kollia, A M ^a   Stylianopoulou, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

D1 receptors; Dopamine and its metabolites; Early life experiences; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Reward

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; HOMOVANILLIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ANTICIPATION; BRAIN; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REWARD; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; WISTAR RAT;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE LEARNING; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; REWARD; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84898614477     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.03.035     Document Type: Article

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