Parallel medullary gustatospinal pathways in a catfish: Possible neural substrates for taste-mediated food search

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4873-4885

  Kanwal, Jagmeet S ^a,b   Finger, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial lobe; Feeding; Nucleus of the solitary tract; Reticular formation; Reticulospinal; Taste

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE; FEEDING; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULAR FORMATION; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPINAL CORD; TASTE; TOUCH;

EID: 0030954547     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-12-04873.1997     Document Type: Article

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