Serotonin neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus encode reward signals

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Li, Yi ^a,b   Zhong, Weixin ^a,b   Wang, Daqing ^b,c   Feng, Qiru ^b   Liu, Zhixiang ^b   Zhou, Jingfeng ^b,d   Jia, Chunying ^b   Hu, Fei ^b   Zeng, Jiawei ^b   Guo, Qingchun ^b,e   Fu, Ling ^e   Luo, Minmin ^a,b,c  

^a GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; QUININE; SEROTONIN; SUCROSE; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROTEIN; RODENT; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOTSHOCK; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; REWARD; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; REWARD; SEROTONIN;

EID: 84961353565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10503     Document Type: Article

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