Dopamine and opioid systems interact within the nucleus accumbens to maintain monogamous pair bonds

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Volumn 5, Issue JULY, 2016, Pages

  Resendez, Shanna L ^a,b   Keyes, Piper C ^a   Day, Jeremy J ^c   Hambro, Caely ^a   Austin, Curtis J ^a   Maina, Francis K ^d   Eidson, Lori N ^e   Porter Stransky, Kirsten A ^a,f   Nevárez, Natalie ^a   McLean, J William ^c   Kuhnmuench, Morgan A ^a   Murphy, Anne Z ^e   Mathews, Tiffany A ^d   Aragona, Brandon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE; DYNORPHIN; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; OPIATE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COHABITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS SHELL; PAIR BONDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELECTIVE BREEDING; SEX TRANSFORMATION; UPREGULATION; VENTRAL STRIATUM; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; BIOSYNTHESIS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; DOPAMINE; DYNORPHINS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PAIR BOND; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1;

EID: 84982788586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.15325     Document Type: Article

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