Parabrachial gustatory neural responses to monosodium glutamate ingested by awake rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 965-971

  Nishijo, Hisao ^a,b   Ono, Taketoshi ^a,b   Norgren, Ralph ^a,b  

^a Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University   (Japan)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Awake rat; GMP; Gustatory responses; MSG; Parabrachial nuclei

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE SODIUM; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

5'-GUANYLIC ACID; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; PONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TASTE THRESHOLD;

EID: 0025752844     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(91)90209-7     Document Type: Article

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