The neural code for taste in the nucleus of the solitary tract of the rat: Effects of adaptation

Brain Research

Volumn 852, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 383-397

  Di Lorenzo, Patricia M ^a   Lemon, Christian H ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Gustatory; Taste responses after adaptation

Indexed keywords

HYDROCHLORIC ACID; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TASTE; TONGUE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; MALE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; QUININE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SUCROSE; TASTE;

EID: 0033988904     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02187-3     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Avenet P., Lindemann B. Noninvasive recording of receptor cell action potentials and sustained currents from single taste buds maintained in the tongue: the response to mucosal NaCl and amiloride. J. Membr. Biol. 124:1991;33-41.
2. Bartoshuk L.M. Taste mixtures: is mixture suppression related to compression? Physiol. Behav. 14:1975;643-649.
3. Brand J.G., Teeter J.H., Silver W.L. Inhibition by amiloride of chorda tympani responses evoked by monovalent salts. Brain Res. 334:1985;207-214.
4. Broughter J.D., Smith D.V. Amiloride blocks acid responses in NaCl-best gustatory neurons of the hamster solitary nucleus. J. Neurophysiol. 80:1998;1362-1372.
5. Contreras R.J., Bird E., Weisz D.J. Behavioral and neural gustatory responses in rabbit. Physiol. Behav. 34(5):1985;761-768.
6. Contreras R.J., Frank M. Sodium deprivation alters neural responses to gustatory stimuli. J. Gen. Physiol. 73(5):1979;569-594.
7. Daniel P.C., Fine J.B., Derby C.D., Girardot M.N. Non-reciprocal cross-adaptation of spiking responses of individual olfactory receptor neurons of spiny lobsters: evidence for two excitatory transduction pathways. Brain Res. 643:1994;136-149.
8. Daniels C., Kinnamon S.C. Specificity of hamster fungiform taste cells. Chem. Senses. 20:1995;679.
9. Doetsch G.S., Erickson R.P. Synaptic processing of taste-quality information in the nucleus tractus solitarius of the rat. J. Neurophysiol. 33:1970;490-507.
10. R.P. Erickson, Sensory neural patterns and gustation. In: Y. Zotterman (Ed.), Olfaction and Taste, Vol. 1, Pergamon, Oxford, 1963, p. 205.
11. Frank M. An analysis of hamster afferent taste nerve response functions. J. Gen. Physiol. 61:1973;588-618.
12. Frank M.E., Bieber S.L., Smith D.V. The organization of taste sensibilities in hamster chorda tympani nerve fibers. J. Gen. Physiol. 91:1988;861-896.
13. Frank M.E., Contreras R.J., Hettinger T.P. Nerve fibers sensitive to ionic taste stimuli in chorda tympani of the rat. J. Neurophysiol. 50:1983;941-960.
14. Giza B.K., Scott T.R. The effect of amiloride on taste-evoked activity in the nucleus tractus solitarius of the rat. Brain Res. 550:1991;247-256.
15. Grabauskas G., Bradley R.M. Synaptic interactions due to convergent input from gustatory afferent fibers in the rostral nucleus of the solitary tract. J. Neurophysiol. 76(5):1996;2919-2927.
16. Hettinger T.P., Frank M.E. Specificity of amiloride inhibition of hamster taste responses. Brain Res. 513:1990;24-34.
17. Indow T. An application of the T scale of taste: interaction among the four qualities of taste. Percept. Psychophys. 5:1969;347-351.
18. Lawless H.T. Evidence for neural inhibition in bittersweet taste mixtures. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 93:1979;538-547.
19. McBurney D.H., Bartoshuk L.M. Interactions between stimuli with different taste qualities. Physiol. Behav. 10(6):1973;1101-1106.
20. Meiselman H.L. Adaptation and cross-adaptation of the four gustatory qualities. Percept. Psychophys. 4(6):1968;368-372.
21. Miller I.J. Peripheral interactions among single papilla inputs to gustatory nerve fibers. J. Gen. Physiol. 57:1971;1-25.
22. Miller I.J. Branched chorda tympani neurons and interactions among taste receptors. J. Comp. Neurol. 158:1974;155-166.
23. Morrison G.R. Behavioural response patterns to salt stimuli in the rat. Can. J. Psychol. 21:1967;141-152.
24. Nachman M. Taste preferences for sodium salts by adrenalectomized rats. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 55:1962;1124.
25. Nakamura K., Norgren R. Gustatory responses of neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract of behaving rats. J. Neurophysiol. 66(4):1991;1232-1248.
26. Nakamura K., Norgren R. Taste responses of neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract of awake rats: an extended stimulus array. J. Neurophysiol. 70(3):1993;879-891.
27. Nishijo H., Norgren R. Responses from parabrachial gustatory neurons in behaving rats. J. Neurophysiol. 63(4):1990;707-724.
28. Nishijo H., Norgren R. Parabrachial gustatory neural activity during licking in rats. J. Neurophysiol. 66(3):1991;974-981.
29. Nishijo H., Norgren R. Parabrachial neural coding of taste stimuli in awake rats. J. Neurophysiol. 78:1997;2254-2268.
30. Norgren R. Taste and the autonomic nervous system. Chem. Senses. 10:1985;143-161.
31. Nowlis G.H., Frank M.E., Pfaffmann C. Specificity of acquired aversions to taste qualities in hamsters and rats. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 94:1980;932-942.
32. Pangborn R.M. Taste interrelationships: II. Suprathreshold solutions of sucrose and citric acid. J. Food Sci. 27:1961;648-655.
33. Pangborn R.M. Taste interrelationships: III. Suprathreshold solutions of sucrose and NaCl. J. Food Sci. 27:1962;495-500.
34. Pangborn R.M., Trabue I.M. Detection and apparent taste intensity of salt-acid mixtures in two media. Percept. Psychophys. 2:1967;503-509.
35. Plata-Salaman C.R., Scott T.R., Smith-Swintosky V.L. Gustatory neural coding in the monkey cortex: acid stimuli. J. Neurophysiol. 74(2):1995;556-564.
36. Plata-Salaman C.R., Smith-Swintosky V.L., Scott T.R. Gustatory neural coding in the monkey cortex: mixtures. J. Neurophysiol. 75(6):1996;2369-2379.
37. Rehnberg B.G., Hettinger T.P., Frank M. Asymmetrical neural cross-adaptation of hamster chorda tympani response to sodium and chloride salts. Chem. Senses. 14:1989;663-672.
38. Rehnberg B.G., Mackinnon B.I., Hettinger T.P., Frank M.E. Anion modulation of taste responses in sodium-sensitive neurons of the hamster chorda tympani. J. Gen. Physiol. 101:1993;453-465.
39. Scott T.R., Giza B. Coding channels in the rat taste system. Science. 249:1990;1585-1587.
40. Scott T.R., Plata-Salaman C.R., Smith-Swintosky V.L. Gustatory neural coding in the monkey cortex: the quality of saltiness. J. Neurophysiol. 71(5):1994;1692-1701.
41. Smith D.V., Bealer S.L., Van Buskirk R.L. Adaptation and recovery of the rat chorda tympani response to NaCl. Physiol. Behav. 20:1977;629-636.
42. Smith D.V., Frank M. Cross adaptation between salts in the chorda tympani nerve of the rat. Physiol. Behav. 8(2):1972;213-220.
43. Smith D.V., Li C.S. Tonic GABAergic inhibition of taste-responsive neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract. Chem. Senses. 23(2):1998;159-169.
44. Smith D.V., Liu H., Vogt M.B. Responses of gustatory cells in the nucleus of the solitary tract of the hamster after NaCl or amiloride adaptation. J. Neurophysiol. 76(1):1996;47-58.
45. Smith D.V., McBurney D.H. Gustatory cross-adaptation: does a single mechanism code the salty taste? J. Exp. Psychol. 80(1):1969;101-105.
46. Smith D.V., Travers J.B. A metric for the breadth of tuning of gustatory neurons. Chem. Senses Flav. 4:1979;215-219.
47. Smith D.V., Theodore R.M. Conditioned taste aversions: generalization to taste mixtures. Physiol. Behav. 32(6):1984;983-989.
48. Smith D.V., Van Buskirk R.L., Travers J.B., Bieber S.L. Gustatory neuron types in the hamster brain stem. J. Neurophysiol. 50:1983;522-540.
49. Smith D.V., van der Klaauw N.J. The perception of saltiness is eliminated by NaCl adaptation: implications for gustatory transduction and coding. Chem. Senses. 20(5):1995;545-557.
50. Smith-Swintosky V.L., Plata-Salaman C.R., Scott T.R. Gustatory neural coding in the monkey cortex: stimulus quality. J. Neurophysiol. 66(4):1991;1156-1165.
51. L.E. Toothaker, Multiple Comparisons for Researchers. Sage publications, New York, 1991.
52. Woolston D.C., Erickson R.P. Concept of neuron types in gustation in the rat. J. Neurophysiol. 42(5):1979;1390-1409.
53. Yinon U., Erickson R.P. Adaptation and the neural code for taste. Brain Res. 23:1970;428-432.