Amiloride inhibition of chorda tympani responses to NaCl and its temperature dependency in mice

Brain Research

Volumn 708, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 153-158

  Ninomiya, Yuzo ^a   Fukami, Yasushi ^a   Yamazaki, Kunio ^b   Beauchamp, Gary K ^b  

^a ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amiloride sensitivity; Chorda tympani nerve; Mouse strain difference; NaCl preference; Sodium taste receptor; Temperature dependency

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASTE BUD;

EID: 0030041826     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01218-4     Document Type: Article

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