Sensitivity of rat cortical neurons in distinguishing taste qualities by individual and correlative activities

Chemical Senses

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 363-373

  Yokota, Tatsuko ^a   Eguchi, Kunihiro ^a   Satoh, Toyohiko ^a  

^a AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUININE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; QUININE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SUCROSE; TASTE;

ANIMALIA; CINCHONA PUBESCENS;

EID: 0030838820     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/22.4.363     Document Type: Article

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