Basolateral to Central Amygdala Neural Circuits for Appetitive Behaviors

Neuron

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1464-1479.e5

  Kim, Joshua ^a   Zhang, Xiangyu ^a   Muralidhar, Shruti ^a   LeBlanc, Sarah A ^a   Tonegawa, Susumu ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

amygdala circuit; appetitive; basolateral amygdala; central amygdala; direct and indirect pathways; drinking; fear; feeding; freezing; reward

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; PROTEIN FOS; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1 REGULATORY SUBUNIT 1B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DRD1A PROTEIN, MOUSE; RSPO2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; THROMBOSPONDIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; CENTRAL AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; THROMBOSPONDINS;

EID: 85015999532     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.02.034     Document Type: Article

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