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Protein Appetite Drives Macronutrient-Related Differences in Ventral Tegmental Area Neural Activity

Giulia Chiacchierini, Fabien Naneix, Kate Zara Peters, John Apergis-Schoute, Eelke Mirthe Simone Snoeren and James Edgar McCutcheon
Journal of Neuroscience 9 June 2021, 41 (23) 5080-5092; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3082-20.2021
Giulia Chiacchierini
1Department of Neuroscience, Psychology & Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
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Fabien Naneix
1Department of Neuroscience, Psychology & Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
2Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom
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Kate Zara Peters
1Department of Neuroscience, Psychology & Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
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John Apergis-Schoute
1Department of Neuroscience, Psychology & Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
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Eelke Mirthe Simone Snoeren
3Department of Psychology, Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 9037, Norway
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James Edgar McCutcheon
1Department of Neuroscience, Psychology & Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
3Department of Psychology, Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 9037, Norway
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3082-20.2021
PubMed 
33926995
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History 
  • Received December 7, 2020
  • Revision received April 7, 2021
  • Accepted April 8, 2021
  • First published April 29, 2021.
  • Version of record published June 9, 2021.
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Copyright © 2021 Chiacchierini, Naneix et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

Author Information

  1. Giulia Chiacchierini1,*,
  2. Fabien Naneix1,2,*,
  3. Kate Zara Peters1,
  4. John Apergis-Schoute1,
  5. Eelke Mirthe Simone Snoeren3, and
  6. James Edgar McCutcheon1,3
  1. 1Department of Neuroscience, Psychology & Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
  2. 2Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom
  3. 3Department of Psychology, Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 9037, Norway
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: G.C., F.N., K.Z.P., J.A.-S., E.M.S.S., and J.E.M. designed research; G.C., F.N., K.Z.P., E.M.S.S., and J.E.M. performed research; G.C., F.N., K.Z.P., J.A.-S., E.M.S.S., and J.E.M. analyzed data; G.C., K.Z.P., J.A.-S., and E.M.S.S. edited the paper; F.N. wrote the paper; J.E.M. wrote the first draft of the paper.

  2. ↵*G.C. and F.N. contributed equally to this work.

Disclosures

    • Received December 7, 2020.
    • Revision received April 7, 2021.
    • Accepted April 8, 2021.
  • This work was supported by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Grant BB/M007391/1 to J.E.M., European Commission Grant GA 631404 to J.E.M., Leverhulme Trust Grant RPG-2017-417 to J.E.M. and J.A.-S., and Tromsø Research Foundation Grant 19-SG-JMcC to J.E.M. We thank the staff of the Division of Biomedical Services, Preclinical Research Facility, University of Leicester, for technical support and care of experimental animals; Heramb Chadchankar and Michelle Murphy for preliminary work; Vaibhav Konanur for developing the analytical method used to correct fluorescence traces; Leon Lagnado for kindly loaning equipment used in initial photometry experiments; and Andrew MacAskill for useful discussions regarding analysis.

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • Correspondence should be addressed to James Edgar McCutcheon at j.mccutcheon{at}uit.no

Funding

  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

    BB/M007391/1
  • European Commission (EC)

    GA 631404
  • Leverhulme Trust

    RPG-2017-417
  • Tromsø Research Foundation

    19-SG-JMcC

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Giulia Chiacchierini, Fabien Naneix, Kate Zara Peters, John Apergis-Schoute, Eelke Mirthe Simone Snoeren, James Edgar McCutcheon
Journal of Neuroscience 9 June 2021, 41 (23) 5080-5092; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3082-20.2021

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Journal of Neuroscience 9 June 2021, 41 (23) 5080-5092; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3082-20.2021
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