Convergence of oropharyngolaryngeal, baroreceptor and chemoreceptor afferents onto insular cortex neurons in rats

Chemical Senses

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 399-406

  Hanamori, Takamitsu ^a   Kunitake, Takato ^a   Kato, Kazuo ^a   Kannan, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXAMINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; SODIUM CYANIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; INSULA; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OROPHARYNX; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHEMORECEPTORS; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; METHOXAMINE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NITROPRUSSIDE; PRESSORECEPTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CYANIDE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

ANIMALIA; CHORDA;

EID: 0030801425     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/22.4.399     Document Type: Article

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