Characterization of excitatory and inhibitory neuron activation in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex following palatable food ingestion and food driven exploratory behavior

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Gaykema, Ronald P A ^a   Nguyen, Xuan Mai ^a   Boehret, Jessica M ^a   Lambeth, Philip S ^a   Joy Gaba, Jonathan ^a   Warthen, Daniel M ^a   Scott, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infralimbic; Palatable food seeking and ingestion; Parvalbumin; Prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic; Somatostatin; Vasoactive intestinal peptide

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN; PROTEIN FOS; SOMATOSTATIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; LIPID DIET; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 84903718673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00060     Document Type: Article

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