Retention of conditioned taste aversion to NaCl after chorda tympani transection in Fischer 344 and Wistar rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-69

  Sollars, Suzanne I ^a   Tracy, Christopher J ^a   Bernstein, Ilene L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Deafferentation; Fischer 344 rats; Gustatory; Learned taste aversions; Salt preference; Taste perception

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CHORDA TYMPANI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DRINKING; FISCHER 344 RAT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY; WISTAR RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DRINKING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, WISTAR; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASTE; TASTE THRESHOLD;

EID: 0030183156     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02235-X     Document Type: Article

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