Primate sense of taste: Behavioral and single chorda tympani and glossopharyngeal nerve fiber recordings in the rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 978-993

  Hellekant, Göran ^a,c   Danilova, Vicktoria ^a   Ninomiya, Yuzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Dept of Animal Health Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; CAFFEINE; DENATONIUM BENZOATE; FRUCTOSE; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT; XYLITOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0031036199     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.2.978     Document Type: Article

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