Gustatory receptor cell responses to the sweeteners, monellin and thaumatin

Brain Research

Volumn 748, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 234-236

  Tonosaki, Keiichi ^a   Miwa, Kousei ^b   Kanemura, Fukuju ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

behavioral experiment; chorda tympani nerve; monellin; sucrose; taste cell; thaumatin

Indexed keywords

MONELLIN; SUCROSE; THAUMATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALS; CHORDA TYMPANI NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PLANT PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE;

EID: 0031045524     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01360-1     Document Type: Article

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