Central amygdala circuits modulate food consumption through a positive-valence mechanism

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1384-1394

  Douglass, Amelia M ^a   Kucukdereli, Hakan ^a   Ponserre, Marion ^a   Markovic, Milica ^b   Gründemann, Jan ^b   Strobel, Cornelia ^a   Alcala Morales, Pilar L ^a   Conzelmann, Karl Klaus ^c   Lüthi, Andreas ^b   Klein, Rüdiger ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d Technische Universität München Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; SEROTONIN 2 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR 2A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE2C RECEPTOR, MOUSE; SEROTONIN 2C RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EATING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE TRACT; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EATING; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2C; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 85029955398     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4623     Document Type: Article

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