Ghrelin regulates phasic dopamine and nucleus accumbens signaling evoked by food-predictive stimuli

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 844-856

  Cone, Jackson J ^a,b   Roitman, Jamie D ^a   Roitman, Mitchell F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

dopamine; electrophysiology; feeding; nucleus accumbens; reward; voltammetry

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GHRELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINE RELEASE; FOOD CUE; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DOPAMINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GHRELIN; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84930943506     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnc.13080     Document Type: Article

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