Neurochemical modulation of ingestive behavior in the ventral pallidum

T Shimura, H Imaoka… - European Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The nucleus accumbens and its related circuitry have been shown to play an important role
in promoting the intake of hedonically desirable food. A previous report has demonstrated …

Individual differences in sugar consumption following systemic or intraaccumbens administration of low doses of amphetamine in nondeprived rats

TL Sills, FJ Vaccarino - Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 1996 - Elsevier
Rats exhibit individual differences in their propensity to ingest sucrose and in their feeding
response to low doses of amphetamine (AMP). Rats with high baseline sugar intake (HIGH) …

Scopolamine impairs appetitive but not aversive trace conditioning: Role of the medial prefrontal cortex

MA Pezze, HJ Marshall, HJ Cassaday - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
The muscarinic acetylcholine receptor is an important modulator of medial prefrontal cortex
(mPFC) functions, such as the working memory required to bridge a trace interval in …

Positive and negative motivation in nucleus accumbens shell: bivalent rostrocaudal gradients for GABA-elicited eating, taste “liking”/“disliking” reactions, place …

SM Reynolds, KC Berridge - Journal of Neuroscience, 2002 - Soc Neuroscience
Microinjection of the GABAA agonist muscimol in the rostral medial accumbens shell in rats
elicits appetitive eating behavior, but in the caudal shell instead elicits fearful defensive …

Effects of co-administration of 2-arachidonylglycerol (2-AG) and a selective µ-opioid receptor agonist into the nucleus accumbens on high-fat feeding behaviors in the …

KE Parker, JG McCall, SR McGuirk, S Trivedi, DK Miller… - brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
Previous research has demonstrated that the nucleus accumbens is a site where opioids
and cannabinoids interact to alter feeding behavior. However, the influence of the …

Enhanced intake of high-fat food following striatal mu-opioid stimulation: microinjection mapping and fos expression

M Zhang, AE Kelley - Neuroscience, 2000 - Elsevier
Our previous studies have shown that stimulation of mu-opioid receptors within the nucleus
accumbens preferentially enhances intake of palatable food containing sucrose and fat; …

Evidence that the nucleus accumbens shell, ventral pallidum, and lateral hypothalamus are components of a lateralized feeding circuit

TR Stratford, D Wirtshafter - Behavioural brain research, 2012 - Elsevier
Pronounced feeding can be elicited by injections of the GABAA agonist muscimol into the
medial shell region of the nucleus accumbens (AcbSh). This region of AcbSh has been …

Food-motivated behavior in rats with cortico-basomedial amygdala damage.

I Lukaszewska, R Korczynski, E Kostarczyk… - Behavioral …, 1984 - psycnet.apa.org
In 6 experiments, 12 male Wistar rats with cortico-basomedial amygdala damage (CBM) and
20 sham-operated controls were tested in several food-related situations. The CBM Ss …

[HTML][HTML] Norepinephrine in the medial pre-frontal cortex supports accumbens shell responses to a novel palatable food in food-restricted mice only

EC Latagliata, S Puglisi-Allegra, R Ventura… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Previous findings from this laboratory demonstrate:(1) that different classes of addictive
drugs require intact norepinephrine (NE) transmission in the medial pre Frontal Cortex …

Evidence of a functional relationship between the nucleus accumbens shell and lateral hypothalamus subserving the control of feeding behavior

TR Stratford, AE Kelley - Journal of Neuroscience, 1999 - Soc Neuroscience
Inhibition of neurons in the nucleus accumbens shell (AcbSh) with local injections of GABA
agonists or glutamate antagonists elicits an intense, but specific, feeding response …