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Sweet Dopamine: Sucrose Preferences Relate Differentially to Striatal D(2) Receptor Binding and Age in Obesity

Alterations in dopaminergic circuitry play a critical role in food reward and may contribute to susceptibility to obesity. Ingestion of sweets releases dopamine in striatum, and both sweet preferences and striatal D(2) receptors (D2R) decline with age and may be altered in obesity. Understanding the...

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Autores principales: Pepino, Marta Y., Eisenstein, Sarah A., Bischoff, Allison N., Klein, Samuel, Moerlein, Stephen M., Perlmutter, Joel S., Black, Kevin J., Hershey, Tamara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Diabetes Association 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5001180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27307220
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/db16-0407