Taste quality and neural codin: Implications from psychophysics and neurophysiology

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 147-159

  Schiffman, Susan S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptors; Bitter taste; Neural coding; Second messenger systems; Taste quality

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMINO ACID; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CITRIC ACID; CYTISINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCEROL; HEXAMETHONIUM; MEPACRINE; QUININE; SODIUM; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT; THAPSIGARGIN; THIAMINE; UREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERBIL; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SECOND MESSENGER; STIMULUS; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE BUD;

EID: 0034176958     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(00)00198-0     Document Type: Article

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