Decreased consumption of rewarding sucrose solutions after injection of melanocortins into the ventral tegmental area of rats - Yen, Haw-Han; Roseberry, Aaron G. (Psychopharmacology, 2015)
Keywords: Animals; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Body weight; Choice Behavior - drug effects; Choice Behavior - physiology; Dopamine; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Eating - drug effects; Eating - physiology; Food; Health aspects; Hormones; Injections, Intraventricular; Male; Melanocortins - administration & dosage; Neurosciences; Original Investigation; Peptides; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Reward; Rewards; Rodents; Sucrose; Sucrose - administration & dosage; Ventral Tegmental Area - drug effects; Ventral Tegmental Area - physiology; MC4R; MC3R; MTII; Dopamine; Melanocortin; Reward; Two-bottle test; Feeding