Chorda tympani transection and selective desalivation differentially disrupt two-lever salt discrimination performance in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 450-459

  St John, Steven J ^b   Markison, Stacy ^b   Guagliardo, Nick A ^b   Hackenberg, Timothy D ^b   Spector, Alan C ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONDITIONING; DENERVATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SALIVARY GLAND; SALIVATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBLINGUAL GLAND; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SURGICAL APPROACH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SALIVATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TASTE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0030935278     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.2.450     Document Type: Article

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