Gustatory and visceral inputs to the amygdala of the rat: Conditioned taste aversion and induction of c-fos-like immunoreactivity

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-130

  Yamamoto, Takashi ^a   Sako, Noritaka ^a   Sakai, Nobuyuki ^a   Iwafune, Akiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; C fos; Conditioned taste aversion; Immunohistochemistry; Lithium chloride; Taste; Visceral sense

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE AVERSION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENTERAL NUTRITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FOS; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE;

EID: 0030968279     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00265-6     Document Type: Article

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