Eating 'Junk-Food' Produces Rapid and Long-Lasting Increases in NAc CP-AMPA Receptors: Implications for Enhanced Cue-Induced Motivation and Food Addiction

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 2977-2986

  Oginsky, Max F ^a   Goforth, Paulette B ^a   Nobile, Cameron W ^a   Lopez Santiago, Luis F ^a   Ferrario, Carrie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCIUM PERMEABLE AMPA RECEPTOR; CELL PROTEIN; COCAINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CALCIUM; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOOD; FOOD ADDICTION; FOOD CRAVING; FOOD INTAKE; JUNK FOOD; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBESITY; OUTBRED RAT STRAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOTIVATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CALCIUM; COCAINE; CUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBESITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA;

EID: 84983416724     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2016.111     Document Type: Article

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