Feeding-modulatory effects of mu-opioids in the medial prefrontal cortex: a review of recent findings and comparison to opioid actions in the nucleus accumbens

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 234, Issue 9-10, 2017, Pages 1439-1449

  Selleck, Ryan A ^a   Baldo, Brian A ^b  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

ACCUMBENS; Dopamine; Feeding; Hypothalamus; Motivation; Opiate; Opioid; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

BINGE EATING DISORDER; CENTRAL MOTIVATIONAL STATE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MOTIVATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBESITY; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERIFORNICAL HYPOTHALAMUS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; EATING; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU;

EID: 85008147393     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-016-4522-4     Document Type: Review

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