The taste of monosodium glutamate (MSG), L-aspartic acid, and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) in rats: Are NMDA receptors involved in MSG taste?

Chemical Senses

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 449-457

  Stapleton, J R ^b   Roper, S D ^a   Delay, E R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; GLUTAMIC ACID; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE; TASTE AVERSION;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; TASTE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032790704     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/24.4.449     Document Type: Article

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