Strain-specific changes in nucleus accumbens transcriptome and motivation for food reward in mice exposed to maternal separation
Simon Benoit, Mathilde S. Henry, Sara Fneich, Alexia Mathou, Lin Xia, Aline Foury, Mélanie Jouin, Claudine Junien, Lucile Capuron, Luc Jouneau, Marie‐Pierre Moisan, Cyrille Delpierre, Anne Gabory, Muriel Darnaudéry
The paper shows that maternal separation in C3H/HeN mice increases motivation for palatable food and alters nucleus accumbens gene expression, while C57Bl/6J mice show no such changes.
Frontiers in Nutrition · Jul 26, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience