Role for epithelial Na+ channels and putative Na+/H+ exchangers in salt taste transduction in rats

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 6 42-6, 1997, Pages

  Lundy Jr , Robert F ^a   Pittman, David W ^a   Contreras, Robert J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5 (N,N dimethyl) amiloride chloride; Amiloride analogs; Amiloride hydrochloride; Ammonium chloride; Benzamil; Chorda tympani nerve; Potassium chloride; Sodium chloride

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; BENZAMIL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON SODIUM EXCHANGE; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SODIUM APPETITE; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD;

EID: 0031404949     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.273.6.r1923     Document Type: Article

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