Responsiveness of the cortical taste area neurons to a mixture of the four basic tastants in rats

Chemical Senses

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 131-140

  Hasegawa, Kayoko ^a   Otawa, S ^a   Ikeda, I ^a   Ogawa, H ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortex; GABA; Rat; Taste interaction; Taste mixture

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; METHYL IODIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IONTOPHORESIS; MICROCOMPUTER; MICROELECTRODE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TASTE;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS;

ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IONTOPHORESIS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MICROELECTRODES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASTE;

EID: 0042510775     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/28.2.131     Document Type: Article

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