Food-Seeking Motivation Assay
Objective: Measurement of motivation for food reward in autoDrd2KO mice lacking dopamine D2 autoreceptors
This is a Food-Seeking Motivation Assay protocol using mouse as the model organism. The procedure involves 1 procedural steps. Extracted from a 2011 paper published in Nature Neuroscience.
Model and subjects
mouse • autoDrd2KO (Drd2 loxP/loxP; Dat +/IRES-cre) • unknown • Not specified • Not specified
Study window
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Core workflow
Food-Seeking Motivation Assessment
Primary readouts
- Motivation for food reward
- Food-seeking behavior
Key equipment and reagents
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Food-Seeking Motivation Assessment
Measurement of enhanced motivation for food reward in autoDrd2KO mice
Note: The methods section provided does not contain detailed procedural steps for the food-seeking motivation assay. Only the abstract and introduction are included in the extracted text.
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“The mice also exhibited increased place preference for cocaine and enhanced motivation for food reward.”