Neurons in the cortical taste area receive nociceptive inputs from the whole body as well as the oral cavity in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 322, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 87-90

  Ogawa, Hisashi ^a   Wang, Xiao Dong ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Insular cortex; Nociceptive neurons; Oral cavity; Rat; Receptive field; Tail; Taste

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; INSULA; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MOUTH CAVITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPIKE; TASTE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; MOUTH; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOCICEPTORS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TASTE;

EID: 0037023260     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00099-X     Document Type: Article

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