Appetitive cue-evoked ERK signaling in the nucleus accumbens requires NMDA and D1 dopamine receptor activation and regulates CREB phosphorylation

Learning and Memory

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 606-615

  Kirschmann, Erin K Z ^a,b   Mauna, Jocelyn C ^a,b   Willis, Cory M ^a   Foster, Rebecca L ^a   Chipman, Amanda M ^a   Thiels, Edda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED STIMULI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; APPETITE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; MALE; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REWARD;

EID: 84910135546     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.035113.114     Document Type: Article

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