Ipsilateral connections between the gustatory cortex, amygdala and parabrachial nucleus are necessary for acquisition and retrieval of conditioned taste aversion in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 25-31

  Bielavska, Edita ^a   Roldan, Gabriel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

amygdala; conditioned taste aversion; gustatory cortex; lateralization; learning; memory; parabrachial nucleus; tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE AVERSION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PONS; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASTE; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0030296580     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)00039-3     Document Type: Article

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