Taste-mixture suppression: Functional dissection of cellular and paracellular origins

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2124-2128

  Stewart, Robert E ^a   Heck, Gerard L ^a   Desimone, John A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCONATE POTASSIUM; GLUCONATE SODIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; STEADY STATE; TASTE BUD; TRANSPORT KINETICS; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

EID: 0029927049     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.75.5.2124     Document Type: Article

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