Food Intake Recruits Orosensory and Post-ingestive Dopaminergic Circuits to Affect Eating Desire in Humans

Cell Metabolism

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 695-706.e4

  Thanarajah, Sharmili Edwin ^a,b   Backes, Heiko ^a   DiFeliceantonio, Alexandra G ^a,c,f,h   Albus, Kerstin ^d   Cremer, Anna Lena ^a   Hanssen, Ruth ^a,b   Lippert, Rachel N ^a   Cornely, Oliver A ^b,d,g   Small, Dana M ^c,e,f   Brüning, Jens C ^a,b,d   Tittgemeyer, Marc ^a,d,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^h MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

dopamine release; food reward; gut brain axis; human brain; positron emission tomography; post ingestive signaling; wanting

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; RACLOPRIDE C 11;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DORSAL STRIATUM; EATING; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INGESTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PALATABILITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; AGED; BRAIN; FOOD PREFERENCE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TASTE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; EATING; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TASTE;

EID: 85060295216     PISSN: 15504131     EISSN: 19327420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2018.12.006     Document Type: Article

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