Mesolimbic leptin signaling negatively regulates cocaine-conditioned reward

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Shen, M ^a   Jiang, C ^a   Liu, P ^a   Wang, F ^a   Ma, L ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; LEPTIN; SACCHARIN; SEROTONIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOWN REGULATION; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; GENE SILENCING; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EXON; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MOTIVATION; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOPAMINE; EXONS; LEPTIN; MALE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, OBESE; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 85002818542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2016.223     Document Type: Article

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