Intravascular food reward.

Consumption of calorie-containing sugars elicits appetitive behavioral responses and dopamine release in the ventral striatum, even in the absence of sweet-taste transduction machinery. However, it is unclear if such reward-related postingestive effects reflect preabsorptive or postabsorptive events...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Albino J Oliveira-Maia, Craig D Roberts, Q David Walker, Brooke Luo, Cynthia Kuhn, Sidney A Simon, Miguel A L Nicolelis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3181252?pdf=render