Ana Paula Fraga Lopes

GABAA and GABAB agonist microinjections into medial accumbens shell increase feeding and induce anxiolysis in an animal model of anxiety

Ana Paula Fraga Lopes, Isabel Cristina da Cunha, Sérgio Murilo Steffens et al. · Behavioural Brain Research · 2007 · 40 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +14

The microinjection of AMPA receptor antagonist into the accumbens shell, but not into the accumbens core, induces anxiolysis in an animal model of anxiety

Isabel Cristina da Cunha, Ana Paula Fraga Lopes, Sérgio Murilo Steffens et al. · Behavioural Brain Research · 2007 · 33 citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +13

Effects of GABA ligands injected into the nucleus accumbens shell on fear/anxiety-like and feeding behaviours in food-deprived rats

Ana Paula Fraga Lopes, Laís Ganzer, Aline Caon Borges et al. · Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · 2011 · 24 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +14

The effects of metergoline and 8-OH-DPAT injections into arcuate nucleus and lateral hypothalamic area on feeding in female rats during the estrous cycle

Sérgio Murilo Steffens, Isabel Cristina da Cunha, Danielle Beckman et al. · Physiology & Behavior · 2008 · 22 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Modulation of fear/anxiety responses, but not food intake, following α-adrenoceptor agonist microinjections in the nucleus accumbens shell of free-feeding rats

Larissa Kochenborger, Débora Zanatta, Luigi Marins Berretta et al. · Neuropharmacology · 2011 · 17 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +17