Salient responsiveness of parabrachial neurons to the conditioned stimulus after the acquisition of taste aversion learning in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 239-247

  Shimura, T ^a   Tanaka, H ^a   Yamamoto, T ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conditioned taste aversion; Gustatory processing; Learning; NaCl; Parabrachial nucleus; Unit activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; LEARNING; MALAISE; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; PONS; QUININE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; TASTE;

EID: 0030855988     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00188-7     Document Type: Article

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