Responses of single lingual nerve fibers to thermal and chemical stimulation

Brain Research

Volumn 790, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 224-235

  Pittman, David W ^a   Contreras, Robert J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Common chemical sense; Electrophysiology; Taste; Trigeminal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; HEAT SENSITIVITY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHELATING AGENTS; CITRIC ACID; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLUCOSE; HEAT; LINGUAL NERVE; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; QUININE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TASTE; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0032550193     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00059-6     Document Type: Article

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