Renewal of conditioned responding to food cues in rats: Sex differences and relevance of estradiol

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 151, Issue , 2015, Pages 338-344

  Anderson, Lauren C ^a   Petrovich, Gorica D ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Appetitive; Conditioning; Context; Estradiol; Renewal

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; EATING HABIT; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOOD CUE; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL LEARNING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DRUG EFFECTS; FOOD; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ESTRADIOL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84939440781     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.07.035     Document Type: Article

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