Correlation between activation of the prelimbic cortex, basolateral amygdala, and agranular insular cortex during taste memory formation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2719-2728

  Uematsu, Akira ^a,b   Kitamura, Akihiko ^a   Iwatsuki, Ken ^a,c   Uneyama, Hisayuki ^a   Tsurugizawa, Tomokazu ^a  

^a AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; FMRI; Learning and memory; Prelimbic cortex; Taste aversion

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN C FOS; CHOLERA TOXIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 1; OXYGEN;

AMYGDALA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INSULA; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DRUG EFFECTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIMBIC CORTEX; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLERA TOXIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC LOBE; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; OXYGEN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TASTE;

EID: 84965185164     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu069     Document Type: Article

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