Opioid and orexin hedonic hotspots in rat orbitofrontal cortex and insula

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 43, 2017, Pages E9125-E9134

  Castro, Daniel C ^a   Berridge, Kent C ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Insula; Motivation; Opioid; Orbitofrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

OPIATE PEPTIDE; OREXIN; PROTEIN FOS; SUCROSE; ENKEPHALIN[2 DEXTRO ALANINE 4 METHYLPHENYLALANINE 5 GLYCINE]; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PROTEIN V FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ANTERIOR ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEDONIC HOTSPOTS; INSULA; MALE; MIDDLE INSULA; MOTIVATION; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR INSULA; POSTERIOR ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SUPPRESSIVE HEDONIC COLDSPOT; SWEETNESS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EATING; ENKEPHALIN, ALA(2)-MEPHE(4)-GLY(5)-; FEMALE; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; OREXINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUCROSE;

EID: 85032186344     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1705753114     Document Type: Article

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