Descending influences from the lateral hypothalamus and amygdala converge onto medullary taste neurons

Chemical Senses

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-171

  Cho, Young K ^a,c   Li, Cheng Shu ^b,c   Smith, David V ^b,c  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrifugal modulation; Gustation; Solitary nucleus; Taste processing

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; HOMOCYSTEIC ACID; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOREBRAIN; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TASTE BUD; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HAMSTER; HISTOLOGY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PHYSIOLOGY; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TASTE;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; CRICETINAE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESOCRICETUS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; TASTE;

EID: 0043011813     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/28.2.155     Document Type: Article

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