Responses of the hamster chorda tympani nerve to binary component taste stimuli: Evidence for peripheral gustatory mixture interactions

Brain Research

Volumn 727, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 79-90

  Formaker, Bradley K ^a   Frank, Marion E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorda tympani; Hamster; Mixture; Quinine; Sucrose; Taste

Indexed keywords

QUININE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HAMSTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE;

EID: 0030586354     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00356-3     Document Type: Article

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