Glossopharyngeal nerve transection eliminates quinine-stimulated Fos- like immunoreactivity in the nucleus of the solitary tract: Implications for a functional topography of gustatory nerve input in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3107-3121

  King, Camille T ^a   Travers, Susan P ^b   Rowland, Neil E ^a   Garcea, Mircea ^a   Spector, Alan C ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorda tympani nerve; Fos immunohistochemistry; Glossopharyngeal nerve; Nerve transection; Nucleus of the solitary tract; Taste; Topography

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; QUININE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033560919     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-08-03107.1999     Document Type: Article

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