Responses of neurons in the primate taste cortex to the glutamate ion and to inosine 5′-monophosphate

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 991-1000

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a   Critchley, Hugo D ^a   Wakeman, E A ^a   Mason, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glutamate; Insular cortex; Nucleotide; Orbitofrontal cortex; Primate; Taste cortex; Umami

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; INSULA; MACACA; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATIETY; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALS; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MICROELECTRODES; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; QUININE; SATIETY RESPONSE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASTE;

EID: 0029874438     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02178-7     Document Type: Article

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