Contribution of different taste cells and signaling pathways to the discrimination of "bitter" taste stimuli by an insect

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 7281-7287

  Glendinning, John I ^a   Davis, Adrienne ^a   Ramaswamy, Sudha ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitter taste; Discrimination; Habituation generalization paradigm; Insect; Manduca sexta; Taste cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BITTER TASTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; LEPIDOPTERA; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0037104788     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-16-07281.2002     Document Type: Article

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