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SUBMITTER: Krause M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2878763 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krause Michael M German P Walter PW Taha Sharif A SA Fields Howard L HL
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20100301 13
Nucleus accumbens (NAc) inactivation increases food intake, indicating that NAc neurons exert ongoing inhibition of feeding. We previously described a subpopulation of NAc neurons that pause during sucrose licking and proposed that the pause permits consumption. We tested this hypothesis by first recording NAc neurons during sucrose consumption, and then electrically stimulating through the same electrodes. A large proportion of NAc shell and core neurons were inhibited during sucrose consumptio ...[more]