Convergence of afferent inputs from the chorda tympani, lingual- tonsillar and pharyngeal branches of the glossopharyngeal nerve, and superior laryngeal nerve on the neurons in the insular cortex in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 763, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 267-270

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chorda tympani; Convergence; Glossopharyngeal nerve; Insular cortex; Rat; Superior laryngeal nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CHORDA TYMPANI; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; INSULA; LARYNGEAL NERVE; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; LARYNGEAL NERVES; LINGUAL NERVE; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHARYNX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TONSIL;

EID: 0030855749     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00483-6     Document Type: Article

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