Amiloride inhibits taste nerve responses to NaCl and KCl in Sprague- Dawley and Fischer 344 rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 507-516

  Minear, Michelle M ^a   Hammack, Sayamwong E ^a   Lundy Jr , Robert F ^a   Contreras, Robert J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorda tympani; Nerve; Receptor mechanisms; Salt preference; Strain difference; Taste electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM APPETITE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASTE; TASTE BUD; TASTE PREFERENCE;

EID: 0030220128     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(96)00046-7     Document Type: Article

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