Acute sodium deficiency reduces gustatory responsiveness to NaCl in the parabrachial nucleus of rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-36

  Shimura, Tsuyoshi ^a   Komori, Masashi ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Furosemide; NaCl; Parabrachial nucleus; Rat; Single unit; Sodium appetite; Taste

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; URETHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM APPETITE; SODIUM DEFICIENCY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; APPETITE; MALE; NEURONS; PONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TASTE;

EID: 0031585487     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00745-3     Document Type: Article

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