Effects of chorda tympani nerve anesthesia on taste responses in the NST

Chemical Senses

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 661-673

  Dinkins, Mark E ^a   Travers, Susan P ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALIA; CHORDA;

EID: 0031672627     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/23.6.661     Document Type: Article

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