title: Conditioned flavor preferences in animals: Merging pharmacology, brain sites and genetic variance.
abstract: The elucidation of the behavioral, neurochemical, neuroanatomical and genetic substrates mediating the development of conditioned flavor preferences (CFP) is one of the multi-faceted scientific contributions that Dr. Anthony Sclafani has made to the study of food intake. This review summarizes the results of thirty-five publications over nearly twenty years of collaborations between the Sclafani and Bodnar laboratories. This includes the different approaches employed to study the orosensory (flavor-flavor) and post-ingestive (flavor-nutrient) processes underlying CFP including its acquisition (learning) and expression. It describes how CFP is elicited by different sugars (sucrose, glucose, fructose) and fats (corn oil) in rats, and how strain-specific CFP effects can be observed through the use of inbred mouse strains to evaluate genetic variance. The roles of pharmacological substrates (dopamine, glutamate, opioids, acetylcholine, GABA, cannabinoids) mediating sugar- and fat-CFP acquisition and expression are elucidated. Finally, neuroanatomical sites of action (nucleus accumbens, amygdala, medial prefrontal and orbital frontal cortices, lateral hypothalamus) are evaluated at which dopamine signaling mediates acquisition and expression of different forms of CFP.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Queens College and the Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Cluster of the Psychology Doctoral Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States. Electronic address: richard.bodnar@qc.cuny.edu.
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Bodnar
mesh_terms: D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D002186:Cannabinoids / Q000494:pharmacology; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage; D000073417:Dietary Sugars / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004298:Dopamine / Q000502:physiology; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D016202:N-Methylaspartate / Q000502:physiology; D000071184:Pharmacogenomic Variants; D011803:Quinine / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D043884:Receptor, Cannabinoid, CB1 / Q000502:physiology; D018080:Receptors, GABA-B / Q000502:physiology; D011976:Receptors, Muscarinic / Q000502:physiology; D013649:Taste
chemical_list: D002186:Cannabinoids; D004041:Dietary Fats; D000073417:Dietary Sugars; D043884:Receptor, Cannabinoid, CB1; D018080:Receptors, GABA-B; D011976:Receptors, Muscarinic; D016202:N-Methylaspartate; D011803:Quinine; D000109:Acetylcholine; D004298:Dopamine
keywords: Conditioned flavor preferences; Distributed brain network; Fats; Genetic variance; Sugars