Neural circuits for taste. Excitation, inhibition, and synaptic plasticity in the rostral gustatory zone of the nucleus of the solitary tract

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 855, Issue , 1998, Pages 467-474

  Bradley, Robert M ^a,b   Grabauskas, Gintautas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLUTAMIC ACID; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; POST TETANIC POTENTIATION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TASTE; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALIA; CHORDA;

EID: 0032459903     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10607.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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