Long-term, calorie-restricted intake of a high-fat diet in rats reduces impulse control and ventral striatal D2 receptor signalling - two markers of addiction vulnerability

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3095-3104

  Adams, Wendy K ^a,b   Sussman, Jacob L ^a   Kaur, Sukhbir ^a   D'souza, Anna M ^b   Kieffer, Timothy J ^b   Winstanley, Catharine A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CREB; Dopamine; Five choice serial reaction time task; Impulsivity; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; INSULIN; LEPTIN; DRD2 PROTEIN, RAT; SUGAR INTAKE;

ADDICTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMPULSIVENESS; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID DIET; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL STRIATUM; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LONG EVANS RAT; LOW CALORY DIET; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SUGAR INTAKE; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DIET, HIGH-FAT; DIET, REDUCING; DIETARY SUCROSE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INSULIN; LEPTIN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; TIME FACTORS; VENTRAL STRIATUM;

EID: 84954427624     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13117     Document Type: Article

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